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Family food bill now £27 higher
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
21 August 2008
Families are paying around £27 more per week than this time last year on basic food items, a price comparison website has revealed.
According to figures from mysupermarket.co.uk and based on food shopping at Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's, a family of four who spent an average £100 per week in August 2007 would now have to spend £127 to buy the same items - an increase of £1,404 over a year. Dave Prentis, general secretary of public services union Unison, which last month took strike action linking its members' pay offer to the rising cost of living, said, 'The Government's unjust public sector pay policy means...
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