You and Yours - 06/03/2009

Presented by Peter White. Reports include: A South Wales-based TV and home furnishings seller which has been criticised for charging high rates of interest. Ian Macmillan ponders the significance of the necktie. Why does the wearing, or not wearing, of this tiny piece of material mean so much? Tickets for Michael Jackson's O2 concerts don't go on general sale until Friday 13 March 2009 - but tickets are already on sale via the internet at five to six times their face value. Is the fall in sterling good news for UK tourism? Sandie Dawe is the acting chief executive of Visit Britain and in charge of marketing Britain overseas as a tourist destination. Andrew Lee has learning difficulties and has gone through many of the experiences associated with that impairment - being bullied, dead-end jobs and deterred from having children. He is now director of People First, the national campaigning organisation run by people with learning difficulties. The voluntary Mountain Rescue Service is struggling financially and has asked the government for a VAT exemption. The issue was raised in the House of Lords this week. We report on the result. Four people involved in a boiler room fraud that conned 500 investors out of more than 2.4 million pounds have been found guilty at the end of an eight-week trial at Southwark Crown Court.