Food Basics Price-check; Dating Apps Anniversary; City v Country Life
As food prices rise at the highest rate since 2008, we track price differences between the major supermarkets.
As food prices rise at the highest rate since 2008 we track price differences between the major supermarkets. Each month You and Yours has been following the changes to the cost of ten supermarket own brand food products - from pasta to bread and potatoes and rice. Prices have increased compared to the previous month across the major supermarkets (except Tesco's) - and there's a gap between the top stores as Aldi keeps its basket of basics below Β£10.
What rights do you have if someone wants to demolish your house? The owner of a flat near Motherwell is in the process of finding out. Nick Wasniewski finds himself the only one left living in one of eight blocks of flats. Everybody has moved out because the flats are earmarked for demolition. He's refusing to move to make way for new houses unless he's offered more money to go.
People are still moving out of London at the same rate as they did during the pandemic. Figures compiled by the estate agents Hamptons suggest that in the first of this year, Londoners bought more than 40,000 homes outside the capital, with the vast majority doing so to live there, rather than buy-to-let. At the height of the lockdowns we saw somewhat of an exodus from our major cities as people found they could work from virtually anywhere - as well as seeking a quieter life, with less commuting. But now there is a noticeable trend in people returning to city life. Hamptons reckon the number of people buying in London from outside the capital has increased for the second year since the end of lockdowns, rising to nearly 13%. We hear from someone who left city life for the country and vows never to return...and someone who moved to the country, hated it and moved back.
It was ten years ago that Tinder started to be downloaded on to smartphones, changing the dating landscape forever.
And it didn’t just usher in a whole new language of terms and acronyms, it brought about some big changes in attitudes too.
We look back at a decade of using the apps as people search for their very own Tinderella...
PRESENTER: PETER WHITE
PRODUCER: CRAIG HENDERSON
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