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With the summer holidays now in full swing across the UK, many working parents are faced with the extra costs of having children at home for 6 weeks. We’ll be speaking with parents about how they manage this, as well as giving advice on how to keep those costs down.

You may have noticed that the amount you are spending on your food shopping is going up – food prices rose in July, the sixth month in a row, meaning they are now 4% up on this time last year. The British Retail Consortium will tell us what is going up in price and why, as well as telling us what is happening in other areas of retail.

And you may well know from bitter experience that mobile phone theft is rife in cities across the UK - particularly in London. More than 80,000 phones were stolen in London last year. That was a 20% increase year-on-year, according to the Metropolitan Police. A pilot scheme that starts today, in Westminster, is looking to educate people on protecting themselves and their phone, as well as offering support to those who have their phones snatched.

PRESENTER: Winifred Robinson
PRODUCER: Dave James