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The true, devastating scale of rising prices is revealed today – by the new Daily Mail Cost of Living Index.
It shows that families are having to find more than
According to the Consumer Price Index, inflation is running at only 2.5 per cent.
Yet the Mail’s index finds that food costs alone are rising at 15.5 per cent a year – more than six times the official rate.
And there are double-digit increases in other “must-pay” essentials such as petrol, gas and electricity.
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