Drop off rip-offs

Wake Up To Money

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4.1 • 775 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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More than half of UK airports have raised or introduced drop-off fees over the past year. Reaction to that. Also - Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed up to 500 jobs are at risk following the launch of a new managers' voluntary redundancy scheme. We bring you the views of a car industry expert. And as 270,000 people descend upon Portrush in Northern Ireland for this year's Open Championship, we hear how the golf tournament is set to benefit one local ice cream parlour.

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0:00.0	I'm Mariana Spring, the BBC's social media investigations correspondent.
0:06.0	In my podcast, I've been investigating what happened to the daughter of a conspiracy theorist who died having rejected chemotherapy.
0:13.0	It would mean the world to me if I could make it that she wasn't just another in the long line of people that die in this way.
0:19.0	How does this reflect the rise of health conspiracy theories on social media and beyond?
0:24.8	The new series of Mariana in Conspiracy Land.
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0:34.9	Wake Up to Money from BBC Five Live. Hello, morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:38.1	Hello morning.
0:39.0	Welcome to Wake Up to Money with the unexpected rise in UK inflation yesterday.
0:43.7	There's a lot riding this morning on the UK's latest monthly labour market stats.
0:47.9	Might the impact any possible lowering of interest rates next month?
0:50.9	We will be chatting about that.
0:52.4	Speaking of interest rates.
0:53.6	He's a knucklehead. He's got a very easy job to do. You know what he has to do? Lower interest rates next month. We will be chatting about that. Speaking of interest rates, he's a knucklehead. He's got a very easy job to do. You know what he has to do? Lower interest rates. If President Trump's favorite economist seems to be in his crosshairs again, we will find out why he's so crossed with Jerome Powell, the head of the U.S. Central Bank shortly. And Diageo, one of the biggest drink companies in the world,
1:11.5	is looking for a new boss. They sacked their chief exec, Deborah crew yesterday. We'll take a look
1:15.6	at Y and also on the program today. At the end of summer holidays, we are literally okay,
1:20.9	we are done. To be honest, I love my child, but I don't like holidays. Yeah, the cost of holidays and the strain they put on some
1:29.4	families. We'll be hearing about the cost of after school and out of school clubs and why
1:33.8	that's on the rise. Wake up to money with Will Bain. Yeah, morning. Welcome to Wake Up to Money on
1:40.2	Thursday, the 17th of July, just gone 5 o'clock in the morning here. We're with you this morning.
1:44.9	Great to have your company. Yeah, plenty to get to. We're also going to be talking about airport drop-off fees that seem to be on the up as well. So a couple of summer stories around there, including that cost of childcare. And we'll dig through all the big economic data yesterday. Surprise rise in inflation. We'll look ahead to what we might expect from the labour market stats today in particular.
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