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Oct 2024
52 m

Yellow, Goodbye?

Bbc Radio 5 Live
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New digital labels being trialled by British supermarkets could soon mean that yellow discount stickers have a limited shelf life - Will Bain finds out how it might work.

The boss of the UK's biggest warehousing company, Hamid Moghadam of Prologis, says UK planning regulations need to be torn up to help Britain grow.

And the latest update from the conflict in the Middle East.

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