Introduction

This Christmas, thousands of people across the UK will be without a safe place to call home. A gift to the Radio 4 Christmas Appeal with St Martin in the Fields can help people find a home by providing a much-needed deposit or paying for rent in advance. More than a thousand steelworkers will share compensation of £49 million for pension miss selling but campaigners say it's unfair and inadequate. HSBC will close a quarter of its remaining branches next year,. It's offering some customers free computer tablets instead, and more on spray foam. But first, a new report by two universities says that children and young people are at risk of financial and emotional harm from loot boxes on video games.