used to. the fork to farm summit, the prime minister at meeting stakeholders, cheaper cuts, needs must and they will be discussing how we improve food security and production. we ve also got new figues from which? that put food inflation for april at over i7% the consumer group says prices ofjuice, chocolate, water, fish, chilled ready meals and cheese are continuing to rise. the british retail consortium saying it is confident that supermarkets are doing all they can to keep food prices low. get in touch with us this morning. food prices, reality or rip off? here is the news from karishma patel. thank you. the latest figures show the number of people not working due to long term illness is at a record high. the office for national statistics also found wages are rising at their fastest rate for 20 years but that those increases are being outstripped by inflation. vodafone is to cut 11,000 jobs over the next three years which is about a tenth of its workforce. this w
bite i7.i% extremely high. we are looking at a bite i7.i% inflation on food compared to the previous 12 months, down on last month, we are talking 0.i% down on last month, we are talking 0.i% down from 17.2% down to i7.i%, shockingly high. but even more worryingly budget ranges, the supermarket own brand budget ranges, the inflation on those is more like 25%. that s the people who are most reliant on the most value budget ranges are the ones hardest hit again. why is that? the profit margins are slimmer on those ranges. it makes sense to overtake bigger hits when prices fluctuate. unfortunately those products are not easily accessible to everyone, not in every single store. we did a bit of research where we went into the