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Energy Complaints; Phone Technology; Flight Changes: Renewable Energy

Naming and shaming energy companies, the phones as clear as a bell and reusing renewable energy.

Scottish Power has been named as the most complained about energy company in the UK -receiving more than twice as many complaints as its closest rival. But will naming and shaming gas and electricity suppliers force them to treat their customers better?

Women's feet are apparently getting wider. Shoes designed for women often seem not to be foot-shaped, and with the pleasure of a beautiful slender pair of stilettos comes the pain of wearing them. An exhibition at the V&A Museum in London explores the perversity of our relationship with shoes.

Phone companies have started to turn on a service called HD Voice, which promises to make broken-up conversations and muffled voices a thing of the past. But is it just marketing hype, or will it make smartphones finally excel as actual phones?

The listeners who've been waiting more than five months to receive goods they bought from an
online department store in Northern Ireland.

If you book a flight there's a chance the airline might alter the time of departure. A few minutes here or there hardly matters....but what can you do if the flight is rescheduled to leave several hours earlier than its original departure time, robbing you of a day's holiday in the process?

Although the Germans have been doing it for years, we've never been able to store surplus energy... until now. We hear how a small company in Sheffield is converting left-over renewable energy into hydrogen to power cars.

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45 minutes

Chapters

  • Scottish Power

    Scottish Power has been named as the most complained about energy company in the UK

    Duration: 09:38

  • HD Voice

    HD Voice on the mobile phone networks promises conversations in crystal clear quality

    Duration: 03:18

  • Network Rail

    Network Rail criticised for engineering projects causing too many delayed trains

    Duration: 04:35

  • Hydrogen Storage

    Power generated by wind is difficult to store but a Sheffield firm have figured out a way

    Duration: 06:33

  • Shoes

    Over the last 20 years women's feet have got bigger

    Duration: 04:24

  • Nigel O'Hara

    An online shop in Northern Ireland has been causing problems for customers across the UK

    Duration: 05:53

  • Flight Alterations

    Airlines have the right to change the time of flights after you've bought the ticket

    Duration: 03:38

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  • Fri 12 Jun 2015 12:15

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