• The Housing Corporation has taken the bold step of doing an "MOT" on the electronic systems that were the cause of such controversy over the last year.

    All of which will no doubt result in a sharp intake of breath, long technical explanations and, last but not least, a huge bill to put things right.

    Then they'll find that somebody with greasy fingers has been at the keyboards...

  • Reality Check hears that Peter Jones, chief executive of Winchester Housing Group, is shortly moving on to the top job at Guernsey Housing Association.

    So, no Sarky comments about people going to tax havens.

    Isn't life a beach?

  • There have been controversial planning decisions in the past, but who could tell a retired couple that they cannot create a living room in their own home?

    Wychavon council in Worcestershire could, apparently.

    It has refused former postmaster David Miller and his wife Sue planning permission to convert the post office part of their house in Cropthorne.

    It's all about changing the use of the room and Wychavon's commitment to maintaining village shops and post offices, it explained.

    Now the Millers will have to prove that the post office is no longer viable before planning permission will be granted.

    Reality Check feels for them – who would have thought that introducing a TV or sofa into a room could land you in court?

  • John Prescott, former DETR supremo and scourge of Welsh farmers, is facing a problem with his right to buy.

    Rumours abound that the RMT union wants to sell to 'two Jags' the cut-price £220 a month flat in leafy Clapham it has let to him for the past 30 years.

    Solicitors for both parties have been negotiating its sale to Prescott "for months", but now elements in the RMT rank and file are understood to oppose the sale.

    If only Prescott's brief had not been so cruelly reduced since the heady summer of 1997. Reality Check doubts he would qualify for help as a key worker under the Starter Home Initiative these days.

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