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You and Yours - 01/04/2009

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Presented by Winifred Robinson. Debtors say HFO has breached Office of Fair Trading guidelines by calling them incessantly, applying unreasonable charges and making threatening statements. Over six pubs a day are closing and campaigners say planning laws should be doing more to keep them open. As the British retailer Topshop launches in New York, how does it needs to adapt to attract an American consumer? With Allyson Stewart Allen, co-author of Working With Americans, and Harriet Quick, Fashion Editor at British Vogue. A new body will absorb the work previously done by the Healthcare Commission, which looked at the NHS, the Care Quality Commission (which covered councils and care for elderly and disabled people) and the Mental Health Act Commission (which oversaw mental health services). We speak to Professor Ray Jones Paul Farmer, of the mental health charity MIND A watchdog has recommended that the British Swimming Association should limit who can access personal information about all of their members on their website. We speak to David Sparkes from the BSA. A new measure means that if you now call in a gas engineer you will need to check they are on the Gas Safe Register. It used to be CORGI who kept the register of qualified gas fitters but the contract has passed to the company Capita, which runs it under the new name Gas Safe.