more than 30% of income on rent is unaffordable, and the proportion of young renters grappling with high housing costs is at a five year high. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. no one likes paying rent, but right now, people under 30 like mia are paying through the nose. my tenancy is ending soon and looking for new tenancies is just more and more expensive. it s disheartening because it feels like you re just going to be stuck in rental properties forever, but everyone s in the same position. it s extortionate. what were you paying then? it s 850 between the two of us and also the bills which have absolutely crippled me. i literallyjust moved back home two weeks ago, so there you go. although the data shows the most unaffordable areas for young people are in london, many of the areas that have seen the biggest change are other towns and cities. rotherham, bolton, dudley, slough, salford, walsall, nottingham, trafford and peterborough have seen some of the bigg
pressure in a public meeting to put more police on the beat in this part of london following a killing which has horrified a community. tom symonds, bbc news, willesden magistrates court. new figures suggest four out of ten young people are spending more than a third of their income on rent. housing experts say paying landlords that much is unaffordable . the proportion of young people struggling with high rental costs is now said to be at a five year high. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. megan and richard have been struggling to pay the rent on zero hours contracts in london. they had been paying £560 a month each in a house share but when their contracts ended a few months ago the landlord upped the rent, by a lot. 0ur rent increased 50% and that was just going to be completely unaffordable. more than half of their pay would have gone straight to the landlord.
tenancies are spending an unaffordable amount of their income on rent, new figures suggest. housing experts say spending more than 30% of income on rent is unaffordable, and the proportion of young renters grappling with high housing costs is at a five year high. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. no one likes paying rent, but right now, people under 30 like mia are paying through the nose. my tenancy is ending soon and looking for new tenancies is just more and more expensive. it s disheartening because it feels like you re just going to be stuck in rental properties forever, but everyone s in the same position. it s extortionate. what were you paying then? it s 850 between the two of us and also the bills which have absolutely crippled me. i literallyjust moved back home two weeks ago, so there you go. although the data shows the most unaffordable areas for young people are in london, many of the areas that have seen the biggest change are other towns and ci
there is no evidence, no evidence given in the security report that apple have put out but they say it may have been used by hacker, this bringsous on to the reasons they shouldn t be concerned is. the general public won t be targeted in a mass hacking spree, that highly skilled team of hackers who will go after high profile people. politician, journalist or human rights activists. this isn t that unprecedented. security patches like are issued by apple on a regular basis, one almost exactly the same was in march. so no concern but the advice is to patch, do the software update as soon as possible. thank you very muchjoe. new figures suggest four out of ten young people are spending more than a third of their income on rent. housing experts say paying landlords that much is unaffordable . the proportion of young people struggling with high rental costs is now said to be at a five year high. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent
victims to be sped up. more than 600 subpostmasters were given criminal convictions when a faulty it system made it look like money was missing from their branches 81 people have now had their convictions quashed. 0ur consumer affairs correspondent colletta smith reports. delight at the court of appeal as the record is set straight. after all this time, now the wait has been lifted. after all this time, now the weight has been lifted. but this court victory is not the end of the road. the post office took hundreds of thousands of pounds from subpostmasters like richard to cover what looked like shortfalls at branches, leaving people financially ruined. imprisoned while pregnant, sima lost her home too. she s been cleared for a year but hasn t got a settlement from the post office yet. no money can replace the damage that s been done by the post office to us. but at least we can build a bit of a life together back home. where we re supposed to be.