Summary
House prices are through the roof. The race for space has caused the cost of the average property to go up by over 7% in the past year, according to Zoopla. Adam asks them if that trend will ever stop.
More than 700 children suffered cruelty and sexual abuse at care homes in south London between the 1960s and 1990s. Those are the findings of an inquiry that have led Lambeth Council to offer a full apology. But is that enough for the survivors?
And we end with an Olympics update courtesy of BBC Sport presenter Dan Walker, who tells us how Covid and even flat tyres haven’t been enough to stop Team GB from celebrating so far.
If you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this episode of Newscast, visit bbc.co.uk/actionline.
Today's episode was made by our editor, Dino Sofos with Daniel Wittenberg, Rick Kelsey and Ben Cooper. The studio director was Nick Jones.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, some days having Twitter notifications for Dominic Cummings is a good thing. |
| 0:09.2 | Some days it's just a slightly weird thing. |
| 0:11.6 | And last night he was tweeting about Brittany Spears |
| 0:15.1 | and that court case about her conservatorship, |
| 0:18.1 | basically saying he joined Free Brittany. |
| 0:20.8 | So we've raided the archives of the hundreds of hours of Dominic |
| 0:24.2 | Cummings to see if we can recreate the tweet in audio form. |
| 0:28.2 | Pribly. |
| 0:29.2 | Should we hear that again? |
| 0:31.2 | Pribly, |
| 0:31.9 | one more time. Pribly? One more time. |
| 0:34.0 | Not sure that will make it into the next edition of the newscast opening titles. |
| 0:39.0 | But I do promise everything else you hear on this edition of Newscast will be real. |
| 0:43.6 | Newscast. |
| 0:44.6 | Newsscast from the BBC. |
| 0:46.3 | It will take some time before we figure out what our new normal is. |
| 0:50.5 | Now if that is the argument, then we are going into unprecedented territory. |
| 0:54.8 | Combined with contact tasting tracing, tracing, |
| 0:59.6 | for giving me. |
| 1:00.6 | Yes, yes, yes. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm a vegan, so of course I don't like meatballs. |
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