The highest rate since Elvis died in August 1977 apparently. Inflation is down from 10.4 to 10.1, but I woke up to confident forecasts on the radio that it would be at less than ten per cent when the new figure was announced. Pasta has doubled in price in two years, olive oil up 49 per cent in a year, milk 34 per cent, sugar nearly 30 per cent, ready meals twenty odd per cent, the list goes on.

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