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Recycling confusion, Matchmaker services, Online estate agents

Consumer affairs programme. The novelist and academic who turned to a high-end matchmaking service to find a partner, but stayed single - and £4,000 worse off.

Matchmaker services are different to online dating. They're supposed to be a bespoke service, offering tailored introductions to individuals. Because they're bespoke they can be very expensive. We talk to one woman who used a matchmaking agency. A year and a half later, she's still single but is four thousand pounds poorer. What can you expect from a matchmaking agency? And what can you do when it goes wrong? You and Yours reports.

Profits are down at several of the UK's biggest estate agents, while online estate agents like Yopa, Purplebricks or eMoov are reporting rapid gains. Are we moving away from the traditional model of buying or selling our houses? Is online the future? Or are there things we would miss about the old way of doing things?

Across the UK, for the first time in 15 years, we're recycling less waste than we did. Confusion over which rubbish goes where is part of the problem and it isn't helped by the fact that every council has its own recycling rules. We go to Hull to hear how residents reacted when the council confiscated 2,000 bins from people who weren't sorting their rubbish properly and look at what is causing councils across the country to act in this way.

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45 minutes

Chapters

  • Household Finances

    Should we be reigning in our spending on credit?

    Duration: 08:46

  • Recycling

    If you don't sort your waste out, do you deserve to lose your recycling bin?

    Duration: 09:31

  • Dating

    What can you expect from a high-end matchmaking service?

    Duration: 09:36

  • Car Tests

    Mitsubishi has said its staff falsified data on emissions tests for several of its models

    Duration: 03:07

  • Online v Traditional Estate Agents

    As online estate agents gain market share, what might we miss about traditional sales?

    Duration: 07:11

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  • Wed 20 Apr 2016 12:15

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