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The best local retailers and cracking down on spam texts.

A new crackdown on spam texts, a website giving unknown writers a way into the publishing world, and the finalists for the best local retailer in the Food and Farming Awards.

As the first fine notices are issued to spammers - for a quarter of a million pounds each - is the tide finally turning against those irritating junk text messages?

Do you have a story to share? Wattpad is a new website which claims to be the world's largest community for discovering and sharing stories on the web and across every mobile device.

And we have the finalists for the best local retailer in the Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards.

Presenter: Julian Worricker
Producer: Paul Waters.

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55 minutes

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Mon 1 Oct 2012 12:00
成人快手 Radio 4 FM

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Chapters

  • Tackling mobile spam

    Fine notices totalling more than 拢250,000 have been issued to people sending spam texts

    Duration: 06:07

  • Online publishing

    Is it worth sharing your writing on the Wattpad site in the hope of being snapped up by a regular agent or publisher?

    Duration: 09:37

  • Pilot flying hours

    Pilots in the UK say that planned EU rules on new flying hours will put passengers at risk

    Duration: 03:11

  • Staff shortages for health reforms

    The new NHS commissioning board is having trouble recruiting enough staff

    Duration: 06:26

  • Benzodiazepine addiction

    More than a million people are addicted to tranquilisers prescribed to them by their GP 鈥� that鈥檚 according to an investigation by The Times.

    Duration: 06:34

  • Food & Farming Awards

    We hear from the judges and finalists from the retail store category of the Food and Farming Awards

    Duration: 11:56

  • Orange mis-selling

    Orange is accused of mis-selling to a man with a mental disability, failing to put it right in a timely manner and then cutting off his emergency response landline.

    Duration: 04:36

Broadcast

  • Mon 1 Oct 2012 12:00
    成人快手 Radio 4 FM

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