You and Yours - 15/09/2008

Presented by Liz Barclay and John Waite. Eurobeat is the latest Edinburgh Festival success to arrive in the West End of London. It's a rip-roaring, audience-participation parody of the Eurovision Song Contest. The Musicians Union, however, does not see the funny side. John Folan, Head of the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit, discusses card fraud. Alitalia, the Italian national carrier, has only a few hours left to be saved according to the Italian Industry Minister this morning. It is the latest airline to hit the financial buffers. Travel journalist Simon Calder reports. Lehman Brothers, the fourth biggest investment bank in the world, went bankrupt this morning and as a result the UK branch has gone into administration with about five thousand jobs at stake. We speak to Justin Urquhart-Stewart of 7 Investment Management and BBC presenter Declan Curry. Over the weekend there was exciting news from Beijing for people with learning disabilities. They have been excluded from the Paralympic Games for the past seven years after a blatant example of cheating. Peter White joins us from Beijing. A Visit Britain report out today reveals that international visitor numbers have fallen by 150,000 to 32.6 million, and domestic tourism has also declined. We speak to Patricia Yates from Visit Britain.