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Today EU and US officials are meeting to discuss a potential

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extension of the laptop ban on aircraft.

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In March, the Trump administration imposed new restrictions

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which prevent US-bound travellers from carrying electronic devices

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larger than a mobile phone into the cabin.

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The original set of restrictions affected flights from eight mostly

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countries including Turkey, Egypt, the United Arab

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This affected many of the Gulf carriers including Emirates,

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Etihad and Qatar Airways, but now there are reports suggesting

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the ban could be extended to include some countries

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Any immediate changes would coincide with the peak

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This summer, more than 3,000 flights a week

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With me is Tom Jenkins, chief executive of the European Tour

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Welcome to the programme. Good morning. Sally running through some

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of the details there, but let's go back to the beginning because we

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know this ban was put in place. Lots of criticism about why it was

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necessary, what the rational for it. Talk us through it. Why are they not

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allowed on planes? Well, I think, it is because there is intelligence

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which the president in the United States was sharing with the Russians

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just the other day that there are some people who are being able to

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adapt laptop devices to explode on planes. But why, and again this was

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a criticism, why are they safer in the hold than the cabin? They are

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not. You have got, if you hold such intelligence, and you wish to share

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seen to be doing something. So this seen to be doing something. So this

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is grand standing on the part of some governments, some agencies to

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say look, we're doing something, we're not quite sure what it is,

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because we don't know if it makes it safer. They have that information

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and as ever with such people you've either got to do something or you're

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accused of ignoring what might be a problem. The big difficulty with

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this situation that we've got is that laptops are going to be

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dangerous, even if they're in a hold because there is dangers associated

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with lithium batteries which have a reputation for exploding, not very

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frequently, but there is a background danger of that happening.

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It is interesting because we have been told those are the things you

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can't pack in the hold. Up until the ban it was make sure you put these

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in the hold? It is an inversion of previous advice. We were told it

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wasn't safe to put them in the hold, we're told this is what you should

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be doing. Who stands to lose out, apart from passengers, because a lot

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of passengers will be inconvenienced? The principle

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commercial victims, if there is a backlash, will be the American

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carriers who carry the but k of peel across the labtic. The main --

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Atlantic. The main thing to emphasise, we shouldn't get too

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carried away about this. Business people like to use their laptops on

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board flights. Not many use their laptops on board flights. The main

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Venus Williams of this, I think, may well be children and people carrying

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children over the Atlantic for hom tablet devices are really important,

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pacifying device. Yeah, that's a really important point. It's

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interesting too because we know there was critively this was

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something instigated by the US Administration because they were

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unhappy with what they perceived to be unfair aid for Middle Eastern

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carriers, the likes of Emirates and this would affect US carriers as

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well so that flies in the face of that argument? Well, it would. The

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main issue really that we're facing. This is a huge switch of resources

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away from what they ought to be doing, if they're worried, is

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concentrating on individuals of interest as Border Agencies refer to

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them, and analysing abnormal behaviour amongst passengers towards

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blanket activity which is time scunling and disrupting. The other

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issue which will start to come into focus now is the fact that it is

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strange that they do all the controls, after you've left the

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aircraft. In America, and in Europe, you're only interviewed after you've

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left the aircraft and you've arrived on home soil. They would solve a lot

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of these problems if they started doing that before you get on the

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aircraft. That gets us into the argument about who is grand standing

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and who is making the statement about security. Tom, we could talk

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all day. Tom, really good it talk to you.

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Let's take a look at some of the other stories making the news.

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Lloyds is back in private hands after the UK Government

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At the height of the financial crisis, the Government ploughed

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$25 billion into Lloyds and owned a 43% share.

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The boss of Lloyds told the BBC the bank is now "one

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The Government still owns 73% of RBS which was also bailed out

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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says he will rejoin the social media

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company in the next few weeks after fellow co-founder

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Jack Dorsey was brought back as chief executive in 2015.

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Mr Dorsey has been trying to revive Twitter which says it has more

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than 300 million monthly users, but still struggles

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A pair of diamond earrings has been sold for a record price

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The flawless pear-shaped diamonds - one pink, the other blue -

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fetched a combined price of $57.4 million.

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The pear-shaped jewels, nicknamed Apollo and Artemis,

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Reports say the earrings were bought by an anonymous buyer.

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It was you that bid for them. I put in my $57 bid and I didn't get far.

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You were outbid. Just a little bit. Justify a few million.

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Universal Music has signed a deal with the Chinese

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internet company Tencent, to try and expand their reach

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into China Stephen McDonnell is in Beijing.

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Tell us more about this. It is an interesting development? Well, it is

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potentially an enormous deal for Universal Music. Imagine how big the

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pool of potential music users there are in China. So, it's hooked up

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with Tencent, but the really crucial thing as to whether or not this is

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going to be a good deal or not is whether or not Tencent can continue

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to wean Chinese people off free music. There are basically three

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types of people who listen to music in China. Those listening to pirated

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muse UK, those who are paying and then crucially this big group in the

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middle who are using Tencent's music for example on their phone and

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perfectly legally listening to free music. Tencent has been trying to

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get people to pay by saying OK, you listen to that band's song, but here

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is another song by them, and if you want that song, you've got to pay or

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do you want a better quality version of that song? This is like there are

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only # #15 million, who are paying for this service and around 600

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million Chinese people every month listening for free. So the crucial

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thing is, can they continue to get people to pay? And if so, well,

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eventually, it probably will be a good deal for Universal Music. All

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right, we will keep an eye. Steve, thank you very much indeed. Let's

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look at markets in Asia. I have to say, it was all down as you can see.

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A lot of that is to do with investors around the world getting

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very concerned about what is going on in the White House and in the

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Trump administration in particular. Allegations that have come through

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day after day in recent days are really concerning investors around

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the world about how vulnerable the US Government or the Trump

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administration is. So, in Japan, we saw losses because the yen got

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stronger. . It is seen as a safe haven. The price of gold went up.

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Exporters in Tokyo had a tough time today, that was the Dow the night

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before. Light losses on Wall Street the night before. Nothing to be too

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concerned about. Let's look at Europe now. Again a record close for

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the FTSE on Monday. It's down, just a little bit, but still, doing

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extremely well. Markets across Europe just down a tad. Let's now

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have a look at head to what's going on on Wall Street. Samira has the

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details. Target is reporting. It warned

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investors about lower profits this quarter and has said it will lower

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prices to try and compete with companies like Wal-Mart and

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that will be reporting on Wednesday that will be reporting on Wednesday

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is American Eagle. Weak demand for its men's line and continued

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softness in traffic will likely impact sales and finally, Sisco

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Systems, the world's largest networking gear maker. They will be

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reporting earnings. The company has been hurt by sluggish demand for its

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equipment business and Sisco have been doubling down on areas such as

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security, the internet of things and cloud computing. Internet security,

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something that's taken on some heightened importance in recent

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days. Joining us is Alix Stewart, fixed

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income fund manager at Schroders. Good morning. Good morning. Let's

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talk about Lloyds. We mentioned it there in the round-up of other news

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the. It is a significant day. It is back into private hands? Finally the

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post financial crisis seems to be behind Lloyds anyway or the

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Government ownership of it as finally the taxpayers get their

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money back. Returned to private hands and the taxpayer makes a

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profit on it. So in that sense it has been good, but it all came about

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because Lloyds was in a decent financial position already been it

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got into the bail out? It was a well run bank before the financial crisis

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and wasn't one of those that was in danger, but they bought HBOS which

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had a load of issues and what they have been doing is putting all that

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right since then and this is the end of the process as far as that's

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concerned. So different to the fortunes for RBS though because it

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was in a similar position. It got a bail out out at the height of the

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financial crisis, but it is # 3%, I think, owned by taxpayers, such a

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contrast between RBS and Lloyds? Such a contrast because RBS weren't

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a well run bank and we can see with the number of fines that they are

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getting hit with the and the issues that they have now that it has taken

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them longer to recover. The boss of Lloyds bank, he has been grilled on

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the radio, BBC Radio Today, it's on our Business Live page. It's over

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there, the interview with him and what he has been saying about.

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Interesting comments about executive pay that he was making. So have a

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read at that. To look ahead, the FTSE 100 down slightly. We've got

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unemployment figures out in the UK, shortly. Thoughts? They are expected

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to be a low level. The thing about obviously employment in the UK as we

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have seen is a lot has been self-employed and zero hours

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contracts. The big question going forward is whether, you know, this

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level of unemployment actually leads to wage rises that worry the Bank of

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England. And those wage rises are the bit we are all feeling because

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inflation rising yesterday, we've got less money in our pocket. It's

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not keeping up with inflation, is it? Consumers are feeling squeezed

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and we're beginning to see that in the retail data now. One for us to

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watch. Those figures out at 9.30am. Alix, thank you.

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Still to come, rogue landlords and dodgy digs.

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Why one app wants to change the way students find somewhere to live

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You're with Business Live from BBC News.

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The Government has confirmed that its remaining shares

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in Lloyds Banking Group have been sold eight years after pumping

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At the height of the financial crisis taxpayers

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Our Business Editor Simon Jack is in the business newsroom.

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Simon, it does mark the end of the year as virus that bailout is

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concerned. Yes. Almost nine years ago the taxpayer put in ?20.3

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billion. That has now been repaid in full, with a small profit, nearly

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?900 million paid more than put in. It is not a fantastic return on an

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investment over nearly a decade but this wasn't an investment, this was

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a rescue of a bank, Lloyds bank, which made a bad situation much

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worse by agreeing to take over HBOS, which had made a lot of toxic

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commercial loans, relying on when the money, which all dried up in the

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credit carnage, and saw multi-million pound -- multi-billion

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pound losses. The Chief Executive celebrated returning all that money.

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It has been a very difficult road. ?17 billion paid out in payment

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protection insurance, criminal fraud in some of the HBOS branches,

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particularly in Reading. It hasn't been an easy road. Now they are

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there, the question is what happens now? They expect the shareholders to

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do normal things like try to increase profits, grow revenue, and

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they have really reach wrenched into the UK. There are some headwinds

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facing them, very exposed the consumer and retail banking. As you

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mentioned, it will begin to eat into consumers ability to pay an for

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additional credit. Some problems they have to face, and the end of an

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era. I remember it at the time, ?20.3 billion, no one thought it

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would take this long to come back. The government will be pleased but

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it is some UN and some you lose. Remember they are still very much in

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the red on their stake on RBS. It could be on the government books for

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many years to come unless they are prepared to sell at a loss, which

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the Chancellor said recently he might be prepared to do. Some you

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win, some you lose. Thank you, lots more online to read when you have a

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moment. Our top story today,

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EU and US officials are meeting to discuss a potential extension

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of the laptop ban on aircrafts. The original set of restrictions

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affected flights from eight mostly mostly Muslim countries,

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including Turkey, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates

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and Saudi Arabia but now there are reports suggesting

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that the ban could be extended to include some countries

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within the EU. One analyst I spoke to said it will

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be the whole of Europe. And as we were talking with our guest earlier,

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the problem is of course we tend to think of it just bought business

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travellers with laptops. A lot of you getting in touch saying it is

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families with tablets as well. Andrew says it is not a problem

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having a laptop on a plane, it is the safety in the hold and lack of

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insurance for any damage and theft in the hold. A similar theme from

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Claude, as long as the airlines replace the ones they damage in

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transit. Some airlines, particularly Emirates, are trialling a system

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whereby you can lock it up as you get on the plane, which then goes

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into the hold. Daniel says they just need better movies on flights. Maude

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says she cannot live without her candle. She got mentioned twice!

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Eddie says keep the drinks flowing, I am with him. Drinking on planes.

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Let's move on. You may well have been a student or

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you may be one right now, or you are the parent of a student, well listen

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up, because you may well know very well it is very difficult and often

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quite stressful to find somewhere to live at eight college or university

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and it can be a bit of a gamble at times. I know it all too well.

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The number of university level students studying abroad has more

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than doubled since the turn of the century to reach 4.1 million.

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The number one destination is the United States

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That's followed by the UK with almost half a million

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Figures for the UK suggest the average international student

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spends $18,000 a year, excluding tuition fees.

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A large part of that goes on accomodation.

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Student dot com is a website that helps those students find

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somewhere to live in more than 400 cities worldwide.

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Luke Nolan is the co-founder and Chief Executive of Student.com

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He is with us now. Nice to see you. Morning, Luke. We can see the need.

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I could have used this as a student, trying to find somewhere to live. I

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was back at my university city this week, looking at where I used to

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live, and some places were pretty dreadful, but this is a way of

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matching beds and runs the students. How did the idea come about? Good

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question. I had been living in China already for about six or seven

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years, and spent a lot of time doing business with Chinese live the

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country. The question that kept cropping up was my son or daughter

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is studying abroad, where should they live? Very often, with the

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explosion of international student number is around the world,

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universities haven't been able to build more housing. So people are

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looking for a self -- a safe and comfortable place to live with great

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people. It always used to be guarantee that if you went to

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university in many countries you would be guaranteed at least for the

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first year to be living in university accommodation but so much

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has been farmed out to the private sector that is not always the case.

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Correct. It is not always possible for them. You started this in 2011

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and it was very focused on students coming from China to other

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countries. But now, as we have mentioned, you are in 400 cities

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around the world. How do you manage that? It sounds like a colossal

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task, especially to guarantee that those landlords that are providing

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the accommodation are OK? Very interesting point, in fact it is

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very important for us to align ourselves with high-quality

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landlords, who care just like we do about the safekeeping and well-being

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of students, and the whole student experience. So we spent a lot of

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time, it is time consuming but it is something we care deeply about.

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Where do you make money? The service is free for students, we make money

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from our landlord partners. Our landlords are looking for access to

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the market to students on a global level, so we take a margin from the

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rent that the student pays. And in terms of the logistics of it all,

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you say you take great care in making sure the landlords are all

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right and anything else, talk health that works? You have about hundred

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staff? We have about 180 people in 19 locations, split between our

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source countries and our destinations. So it is indeed

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relatively time-consuming but it is an important part of our business

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model. You have had a lot of investment, over $70 million has

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been ploughed into your company. Has anyone looked at you thinking, we

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want to buy you? Great question. We get approached a lot, in terms of

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discussions about all kinds of investment. Me, personally, as the

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founder of course I'm having the best time of my life building this

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business. I run the company as if I'm going to run it for ever, but of

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course strategic discussions are always interesting to have. Best of

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luck, Luke Nolan, chief exec of student .com. Plenty more to come

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come stay with us. This is how to stay in touch. The Business Live

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pages where you can stay ahead with all the day's breaking news.

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Alec Stewart is back with us. Nice to see you. We will stay with the

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student theme we were just discussing. A great story in the

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Washington Post, five tips for millennials want to buy a house.

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This all came about because an Australian millionaire said to many

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young people want everything, they want a holiday, nice cars, to be

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able to buy everything every day and then they whinge about not being up

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to afford a house. He has a point, doesn't he? I am not sure that

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cutting back on your coffee will make up for the fact that rents have

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gone up such a large amount and that you don't get any interest on your

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savings these days. So it is harder for young people now. Much harder.

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They say they have student debts, high housing costs, nowhere to put

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our money that makes a return, they say are only escape is burning money

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on Kofi. And avocado on toast apparently. The so-called snowflake

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generation, will you explain? I have educated both of you this morning.

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The assumption that young people, at the first sign of trouble melts, or

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they find any hurdle in their way. Is this the generation following

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millennials? I think it is all part of it. Just for the record I don't

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agree with because I think young people have it tough in many places.

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But it is interesting, because there is so much coverage of what young

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people are facing, in terms of challenges. The bank of mum and dad

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is one of the top lenders out there. And having to stay at home a lot

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longer and having to share a house with people you probably wouldn't

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want to. It is tough on these days. On that depressing note, thank you

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for talking through all of that. That is it from us on the show, we

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will be back tomorrow. See you soon, goodbye.

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The warmest day of the year so far yesterday, 26 degrees across the

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south-east. Things

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