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The flour that we use, it starts at £20, £21, and now it is £32.50. wow. the electricity bills as well, they have almost been trebled in a few months. another thing that is affecting this is the salaries as well. the minimum wage is growing year by year, and this year, i think it was 9% more. it is getting hard to keep our prices down. inflation in may remained stuck at 8.7% when it had been expected to fall, driven by still high food prices and airline tickets. underlying — or core — inf...

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Based at around £2.50, £3.50. then it goes up to our carpet cleaners, which are £25. and this is for a week. this is a thermal imaging camera. weve got three of these and they were donated from a community fund. they cost £400 to buy. we let this go out for £9.50 a week. and there is a steady stream of borrowers and returners. im sorting my kitchen out and theres some damp. so, were drying everything out before we get onto the next bit. we brought back two hedge trimmers, one that we ordere...

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Hannah is in blackpool for us today to find out whats driving the increase. i know it is going to be sunny outside for all of us today, but youre indoors. is it a fish and chips friday?— youre indoors. is it a fish and chips friday? youre indoors. is it a fish and chis frida ? �* , , , chips friday? apparently it still is ve much chips friday? apparently it still is very much a _ chips friday? apparently it still is very much a habit _ chips friday? apparently it still is very much a habit t...

Impacting many ingredients, shoppers are sharing the pain. a basket of food that cost £50 one year ago will now set you back £60. half of households have had to buy less. with the cost of wheat, oil and dairy now dropping, there are a few price cuts, but why arent there more? are retailers taking a larger slice? lets consider where your money goes. take a block of cheese costing £2.50. an academic study shows that the farmers cost account for nearly £1.50. the retailers and processors overhe...

Single bus fares will stay capped at £2 until the end of october, after the government extended its travel scheme. the cap applies to more than 130 bus operators in england, but not london. its part of measures to ease the cost of living on passengers, and encourage people to use buses, but the industry is warning it wont be enough to prevent further cuts to services. heres our transport correspondent katy austin. millions of people rely on buses to get to work, go to the shops or to see family...

Between £3 and £5 to get to where i was trying to get to. it really helps me to save some money. that was all due to finish at the end ofjune. now £200 million will be put towards keeping the £2 bus fares until the end of october and a cap of £2.50 for a further year. for bus users right across the country, fare caps really help them, particularly on those longer journeys where they are perhaps commuting from town to town over some distance. those capping fares really helps people with thei...

Until the end of october and a cap of £2.50 for a further year. buses right across the country, fare caps really help, especially on longerjourneys where they are perhaps commuting from town to town over some distance. those capping fares really helps people with the cost of living. the industry predicted one in seven services in england could have been axed if financial support stopped altogether. today £300 million was also announced to help protect at—risk services and towards improvement...

Is unavoidable, for it is their bigger bills which underpins both. as the man in charge of our biggest dairy cooperative knows. cost pressures on farms have come from all the global factors of conflict and the disruption coming out of covid and so on. actually, farmers have had to pay more than 80% more for their feed, fertiliser and fuel. similar to our household bills, the food we are buying, the energy we are getting for our homes. thats put pressure on them. with the spike in costs impacting...