Record monthly rise in inflation to 2.9%

21 January 2010

Inflation rose sharply last month to 2.9 per cent, up from 1.9 per cent in November, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics. The rise in the consumer price index is the biggest since records began in 1997.

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