You and Yours - 11/05/2009

Presented by Peter White. Smart meter roll-out: every home in the UK will have one. It will cost seven billion pounds and take until 2020 to be completed, but the government says it will save consumers money - in the long run. With Ed Miliband MP and Garry Felgate, Chief Executive of the The Energy Retail Association. The mental health charity MIND is calling on the government to produce a male mental health strategy. There is a Women's Mental Health Strategy in place in England but no male equivalent, despite men being four times more likely to commit suicide or to visit their GP for feeling down. Peter White visits a men's mental health support group in Croydon, South London, and speaks to Alistair Campbell, who had a nervous breakdown while working as a journalist and suffers from depression. Lotus calls on the Government to bring in a minimum noise level for all electric cars, so they can be heard better. Are credit agreement claims too good to be true? Legal regulators are investigating some law firms which they think are making unrealistic promises to clients who can't repay loans. The firms offer to find flaws in the contractual agreements which will render them invalid. The National Housing Federation claims many young adults will leave the English countryside over the next three years because of a shortage of affordable homes. Helen Williams, assistant director of the National Housing Federation and Paul Bettison, housing spokesperson for the Local Government Association, discuss. Exchange rates make it attractive for pharmacists to sell their medicines to their European counterparts, with the consequence that some chemists are running low on supplies.