Edition 4179: LawNewsIndex is a UK based daily legal news archive on Law, Lawyers, Law Firms, Justice, Jurisprudence, Legislation, Litigation, Legal Ethics & Human Rights since 2011.
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Today's Highlighted Video Story: The Bank of England is watching UK inflation carefully, and the latest official figures show that inflation slowed in April by less than expected to 8.7%.
Britain’s ‘core inflation’ - a measure which doesn’t include volatile components such as energy and food - is the highest of the G7 countries at 6.8% and is going in the wrong direction.
Nationwide building society has warned that rises in mortgage interest rates - closely tied to increases in the Bank of England’s rate that has been raised to try and control inflation - could hit the housing market.
So why is inflation in the UK so stubborn compared to similar countries?
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