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Re-scaled Rail, Cleaner shortage and Sim Only

Government reveals its rail plans for the north after the HS2 spur to Leeds is axed and why going SIM-only may cost you money and a brand new phone!

The government says it is cutting HS2's route to Leeds because it would take too long for the benefit to be felt and are instead spending the money to deliver better
lines sooner to more people and places in the north and Midlands. But people and politicians in the north say it is a betrayal of previous commitments.

Charging your EV can be confusing. There are so many providers offers different terms and conditions, it is not hard to end up paying much more for your charge than you anticipated. Like a You & Yours listener who was billed nearly Β£40 for filling up with Β£2 worth of electricity. So what happened?

There's more than a million jobs going in the UK. That's a record and many of them are for jobs that many of us take for granted. Take cleaners; many packed it in following Brexit and or the pandemic and today the industry is tens of thousands of cleaners short. There is one upside for those that remain - rates are climbing above Β£15 an hour.

A woman says she felt humiliated when she was turned away from a spa because she was suffering from cancer. Sometimes spas think that they'll do more harm that good by offering treatments to people with cancer but a well known beauty expert who trains therapists says that's nearly always not the case.

The way mobile phones and air time packages are sold is changing. Thanks to new rules imposed by the regulator Ofcom, operators must separate out the costs of handsets and data and other extras. It has led companies to offer a greater variety of packages covering different length contracts outside the normal two year deal and surprisingly, sim only deals aren't necessarily the cheapest option.

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