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Inflation buster: the 10 items that have fallen in price most this year

With the cost of bread now above £1 a loaf and petrol at £1.12 a litre, there seems no end to rising living costs. Just this week, the Consumer Prices Index, the Government’s preferred measure of inflation, shot up to 3 per cent.

But there is some good news for shoppers. Believe it or not, the price of many goods is actually falling, and by quite large amounts. Below we outline the price of ten items that have fallen the most on average over the past year and give an example of each product.

The 10 most ridiculous fines of all time

ITV was fined a record £5.7 million for misleading viewers over the conduct of phone-ins on its flagship programmes this week. But it is not just big companies that have to stump up cash in fine-happy Britain.

With an army of pettifogging bureaucrats policing your every move, you better think twice before you eat, talk, drive and even relax… the list is almost endless. Here we list ten ridiculous but true stories where the authorities have demonstrated their limited grasp of common sense…

Are house prices heading for a 1990s-style crash?

At moments of crisis we turn to history to provide guidance to what lies ahead. With the housing market taking a turn for the worst, it is unsurprising that parallels are being drawn between the darkening conditions now and the last time price falls blighted the land in the early 1990s. We have taken a look at some of the key crash triggers then and now to assess what lies ahead for homeowners.