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QR fraud, Green 主播大秀s and Cornish Pasties

Fraudsters target car parks with fake QR codes, and Barclays launch a cash rewards for mortgage customers who want to make their homes more energy efficient.

Fraudsters are using fake QR code stickers to syphon cash and data from car park customers.

Markets are popular with people who like bargains, and the experience of immersing themselves in the character of the original shopping centre, but cuts to council budgets means that many of these characterful of institutions face closure.

Research shows that more young people learn about money and how to handle it on Tik Tok but is 30 seconds long enough to say anything useful and should you trust an influencer?

Greggs failed once but they are returning for a second go at cracking the 'home' of the pasty. They are planning to open a store in Truro. Will it survive never mind thrive; and why are the Cornish so touchy about Pasties? Cornish comedian Harriet Dyer explains.

Barclay's Bank is trying where several government initiatives have failed - to persuade people to make their homes more energy efficient. They are launching a simple money off scheme offering between 拢500- 拢2000 to the bank's mortgage holders hoping it will tip home-owners into taking action.

The government says it'll clamp down on bad landlords but one of the UK's most experienced housing lawyers, who represented some survivors of the Grenfell fire, says that the government is making this harder to achieve by limiting the costs tenants are allowed to run up in civil actions against landlords.

PRESENTER: FELICITY HANNAH
PRODUCER: KEVIN MOUSLEY

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  • Mon 21 Nov 2022 12:04

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