10,000 may lose homes if mortgages rise £20 a month

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Debt charity, the Consumer Credit Counselling Service, has warned that household finances are on a knife edge. Mortgage lenders would only have to raise mortgages by £20 a month for 100,000 to find payments unaffordable - and eventually lose their homes.

So just how have things got so tight, and should you be worried?