Wigan and newport. Lets speak to marc ashdown, business correspondent. How rapidly have rents been rising . The bbc teamed up with that property portal and we asked them to track rent rises over the past three years. Between 2020 and 2023, they looked at 65 areas across the whole of the uk. For the areas which have seen the biggest increases. This graph tells a story. This is the average amount rents have gone up across the uk, just under 31 . These are the areas that have seen the biggest increases. Manchester, bolton, glasgow as you would expect. But six out of these ten are areas close to cities but not cities. These are towns within touching distance of cities. They have seen the biggest rent increases, luton, newport, bolton. Nearly 39 over the last three years, rents have gone up in bolton. 15 injust the last year. One of the Estate Agents we spoke to said in his 23 years, he hasnt seen anything like it, he described a staggering. Baez hasnt seen anything like it, he described a
Been infected. Yes, im very interested to speak, to speak to her. She was a young and plucky reporter who got wind of this, caught wind of this , and then went into this, and then went into investigation mode. And im very , very interested to hear whether she suffered quite a bit of pushback from within the medical community, whether she suffered some pushback politically , even, or from politically, even, or from fellow journalists, even because this was a huge scandal, a huge story that she decided to break in the mail on sunday. Well be talking to her about exactly what that was like at the time, and what she hopes will come out of this inquiry. 1230 its going to drop. Well have the report. Well know how much compensation , crucially, is going to be offered, but not just the compensation for those that have been affected. For those that have been in affected and affected by this scandal, lasting decades, ripping through the nhs, but also who knew what and when, what decisions were m
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