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Car prices for new cars in the UK have risen 67 percent in the last 10 years. According to the magazine Auto Express - the average list price of a new petrol car has risen from just over 拢27,000 to over 拢45,000. As consumers are looking for cheaper and more eco friendly alternatives, new entrants to the UK market from China are looking to provide these cheaper, greener cars, with sales rising fast. The 蜜芽传媒's international business correspondent Theo Leggett lays talks us through the change happening in the car market.

The building society Nationwide is warning that more than 1 in 4 students in the UK have fallen victim to scams - according to new research. They are particularly worried about the risk of sextortion and blackmail scams, after a quarter of students admit to having shared private information, and 17% sharing intimate images of themselves. Over the last year, the building society鈥檚 fraud team has seen a growing trend of blackmail scams with younger people targeted on social media platforms. We hear how one woman actually stopped her friend from falling for one...

And do you have enough money for a rainy day? Nearly one in four UK adults, around 12.5 million people, have no savings to fall back on in a crisis, that's according to debt charity Step Change. And four in five of those, have no rainy day savings and say they'd find it difficult to keep up with living costs. We hear from one man who, after his wife broke her leg and couldn't work for months, ended up in debt for over a decade.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Jay Unger and Dave James