You and Yours - 21/08/2008

Presented by Liz Barclay and Winifred Robinson. With house repossession rates rising, can you pick up a bargain by bidding for property at an auction? Clare Barratt visits the busiest residential auction house in the UK in London to find out. Many of the food intolerance tests widely advertised in magazines, shops and on the internet are not reliable according to the consumer organisation Which? We speak to Shefalee Loth, senior researcher, and Mike Walker, MD, of Cambridge Nutritional Sciences. Could surveyors and damp proofing companies be telling homeowners that their properties are damp when they're not? Wholesale gas prices have gone up on world markets by fifteen percent in the past 24 hours because a gas pipeline between Norway and Britain was shut down after a leak was found. Will the increase be passed on to domestic customers? Virgin Trains is dramatically cutting the number of services stopping at Nuneaton, and using the protection given to it by government regulations to stop any other company filling the gaps left in the timetable.