You and Yours - 24/11/2008

Presented by Julian Worricker. Scientist and farmer Jimmy Doherty embarks on a mission for BBC Horizon to find out the truth behind genetically modified foods. Police are investigating complaints against one Hajj tour operator which has gone out of business. They have recovered 300 passports but hundreds may miss out on performing Hajj this year. The plight of intensively farmed chickens is widely known but could the next food topic to hit the popular headlines be pork? The companies offering cash-strapped homeowners the option to sell and rent back their home urgently need regulating, according to consumer watchdog The Office of Fair Trading. A report by the energy consultancy company Cap Gemini is warning that unless most of the new power plants currently in the pipeline are built according to plan, the UK could be at risk of power cuts between now and 2015. The Bardsey Crown, made of brass and tin, is at the centre of a dispute over calls for it to be returned to Wales from a Liverpool museum where it has languished out of public sight.