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long waits for council properties combined with rocketing prices mean that in some areas, if you re on a modest income and looking for something that just suits your needs, you might be out of luck. to understand the problem, we re in a city where it s at its most acute. ..edinburgh. edinburgh enjoys its status as a tourist hot spot, and it s also the financial and political nerve centre of scotland. but all that comes at a cost. house prices here are skyrocketing, rents are rising faster than in any other part of the country, and it has one of the highest rates of families in temporary accomodation. and at the same time, there is a shortage of social housing. this is michael urquhart, his partner, kara, and theirfour children teagan, holly, michelle and james. and this is where they live. michael has offered to show me around. hi, michael, how you doing? hey. cheers. going to give me a tour? yeah, no problem. this is room number one. i have one bed here where both th ....
for social housing. so, now what happens? usually. nothing, normally. ..and young people squeezed out of their own communities. if people are wanting to buy a home here, | maybe they should think, - well, who s losing out on this? is the community - actually sustainable? is scotland doing enough to tackle its housing problems? i think we re talking about the difference between managing the housing emergency and ending the housing emergency. we have a judgment to make with limited resources. where do we put those limited resources? or has a whole generation of scots been priced out? campaigners are calling it a housing emergency. long waits for council properties combined with rocketing prices mean that in some areas, if you re on a modest income and looking for something that just suits your needs, you might be out of luck. to understand the problem, we re in a city where it s at its most acute. ..edinburgh. edinburgh enjoys its status as a tourist hot spot, and it s al ....
busy this easter. airports and airlines are expecting passenger on airlines are expecting passenger on a bus to return to pre pandemic levels. in the uk there are reports of long queues of motorists waiting to board ferries at dover as the easter getaway begins. the ferry service dfds says there are delays because of high winds in the channel. earlier i was joined by our transport correspondent katy austin and host of the bbc travel show carmen roberts. carmen told me about the issues facing travellers in dover. yes, it s not a good start for many holiday makers. about 20,000 cars are expected to get through dover this easter weekend. if you look on social media, holiday makers are saying they have arrived at the port at 2am and 3am and it s taken them up to three hours to get checked in. only to find that their ferry is delayed. so these ferries crossing the channel overnight have been buffeted by winds of up to 70 80mph from storm nelson. so it s not a good start. i ....
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marked maundy thursday around the world marking the start of the easter weekend. voice-over: live from our studio in voice-over: live from our studio in singapore, - voice-over: live from our studio in singapore, this. voice-over: live from our studio in singapore, this is| studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. we start the hour in south africa. 45 people have died in a bus crash in the north east of the country. the bus was travelling from botswana to the limpopo province. the department of transport says the vehicle plunged off a bridge into a ravine. after colliding with the crash barrier, it burst into flames when it hit the ground. an eight year old child was the sole survivor and has been taken to hospital with serious injuries. heidi giokos, a journalist based injohannesburg, has more now on what we know. it s unclear as to how the bus lost control, but what we know is that the bus was travelling from botswana to an area in limpopo known as mor ....