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Radio 4,27 Mar 2013,55 mins

Wine Investment, Safety Deposit Boxes and After Beeching

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Four wine investment businesses have come together to launch a self regulation body for the industry but are they made of the right stuff to bring comfort to investors who have lost £100 million in the last five years? A Dorset family were shocked to discover that their bank had lost their safety deposit box containing the family jewels.Some teenagers in Burnley were given the chance to run 100 bed hotel for the day; it's part of a scheme to promote careers in hospitality. Caz Graham went along. Fifty years ago Dr Beeching took his axe to thousands of railways lines; some have disappeared under development, others are even being revived but in some of our national parks the old lines are key to a boom in tourism Simon Browning reports from the Tissington Trail. A million pounds has been invested in training to help retail businesses survive tough times on the high street; it follows the first meeting of the National Retail Forum.

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