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27/02/2009

Consumer news and issues with Peter White. Including an interview with Mary Wilkinson, former editor of Disability Now magazine.

Presented by Peter White.

Ryanair is considering charging customers to use the toilets on its planes and has decided to close down its check-in desks.

The Premier League wants to stop websites which it says screen unauthorised broadcasts of live football matches. So why is one of the world's biggest bookmakers and sports sponsors advertising on one of the websites involved?

Mary Wilkinson, former editor of Disability Now magazine, talks about her new book which gives an insight into those people who have fundamentality changed the way disability is viewed in Britain.

The office block where if you're fired the boss doesn't show you the door but the helter skelter.

One magazine company is hoping to beat the recession by persuading readers to try a new title every month. Simon Parkes takes a look at the magazine market.

An increasing number of barriers are being installed at railway stations. The novelist Andrew Martin is dismayed by this trend.

Mountain rescue teams in England and Wales have told us before they could do with greater tax relief and direct government funding. So why wouldn't our lifeboat crews welcome a similar deal?

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