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Inflation up again

Tuesday, November 16, 2010
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The Office for National Statistics has just announced that the CPI has risen to 3.2% from 3.1% the previous month.

There are two main factors causing the slight increase - petrol prices have risen by 2.1p between September and October and beer, wine and tobacco have become more expensive.
The BBC have a great resource to use with your pupils - a personal inflation calculator, apparently my personal inflation is 6.2%!
To read more about this rise in inflation click here.


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