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You and Yours - 14/08/2008

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Presented by Carolyn Atkinson and Liz Barclay. Including: Residents in Booze, a tiny hillside hamlet in Yorkshire, have been told that Royal Mail can no longer provide a delivery service because the steep, narrow lane to their village is too dangerous. Royal Mail exemptions to providing a universal service for health and safety reasons are rising. Psychologist Oliver James and Penny Garner respond to emails from listeners on last week's programme, which outlined a new method of caring for people with dementia. New statistics show that the average estate agent has completed only fourteen sales over the last three months, a figure worse than at the lowest point of the slump in the 1990s. With Peter Bolton-King, Chief Executive of the National Association of Estate Agents, LGA Housing Spokesperson Cllr Tony Newman, and Adrian Coles, Director General of the Building Societies Association. The Swedish government has launched a drive to promote Swedish food overseas, including the UK. With Swedish Agriculture Minister Eskil Erlandsson and cook and food writer Anna Mosesson. Jon Douglas reports on what petrol retailers are doing to reduce card fraud.