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Should your council house be yours forever?

Gravesham Council wants tenants to move if their home has more bedrooms than they need so another family can take over the property. And they are offering a cash incentive - 拢500 per spare bedroom.

It begs the question of whether the council house system works in Kent. If you or someone you know is on a council house waiting list do you think the system is fair? Is it fair that people tend to keep their council house for life regardless of whether they need it, or need that many bedrooms? Fair that there are families living in B&Bs while single people or couples rattle around in three or four bedroom houses years after their children moved out?

Two years ago the Prime Minister suggested that there should be fixed term tenancies - say five or ten years and that if you start earning more money you should give up your council house and move into the private sector.

If you live in a council house do you think it should be yours forever regardless of changes in your circumstances. It is your home after all - would you feel angry if someone told you you do not really need it any more?

Also on the programe, in the early hours of the morning on 7th March 1945 a V2 rocket fell between two blocks of flats called Folkestone Gardens in Trundley Road, New Cross. 52 people died in what became the second worst V2 bombing in South East London.

We speak to one of the few survivors, James Colwell who almost lost his entire family in the incident.