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Cruise confusion, Hairdressers, Council energy firms

We hear from the confused customers on a double booked cruise - that seems to be going to different places on the same dates.

We hear from the confused customers on a double booked cruise - that seems to be going to different places on the same dates. You & Yours listeners have contacted us about a Royal Caribbean food and wine cruise departing September 2021. The problem is that they know someone else with tickets for a cruise with TV presenter Jane McDonald for the same dates on the same ship. Given that there's only one ship apparently going to two different places - who'll be sailing?

Hairdressers reopened six weeks ago, and many struggled to keep up with pent up demand from lockdown. We look at the future of local hairdressers, might they be sustainable long term if many of us continue to forego blowdries and professional hair dyes?

Robin Hood Energy was the first not for profit council owned energy company to be set up in 2015. Nottingham City Council has now confirmed that £24m in loans to the energy company will never be paid back. It's not the only one to have struggled, Bristol City Council announced in June that they would be selling Bristol Energy, and last year Portsmouth City Council closed down Victory Energy. We look at the difficulties running a publicly owned energy company in such a competitive market.

Presented by Winifred Robinson
Produced by Beatrice Pickup

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Thu 13 Aug 2020 12:18

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