Episode details

Radio 4,10 Jun 2026,53 mins

Hacked Emails, Flight Refunds, Highland Cows

You and Yours

Available for over a year

Our reporter Shari Vahl examines some of the techniques that criminals can use to get into your bank account and explores some of the reasons why. It includes things like accessing bank data, intercepting large bank transfers and even booking fake holidays. When you book a flight, you cannot usually cancel it. However, in the most awful of circumstances, such as serious illness or bereavements, many airlines will make exceptions. We’ll hear from a listener who wanted to cancel flights booked with Ryanair following her daughter’s cancer diagnosis, and how the airline refused to make an exception. The upcoming men’s football World Cup is set to be the longest ever, with more than 100 matches over six weeks. With multiple matches a day set to be played all through the night, will it be a difficult time for problem gamblers? Why are there suddenly Highland cows on everything? Whether browsing homewares online or on the shelves in garden centres, these cows with shaggy coats and long fringes are everywhere. The Range, Next and Dunelm all stock hundreds of items featuring them, but how much is too much?

Programme Website
More episodes