UK retail sales rise in January

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UK retail income accrued by 0.5% successful January, pursuing a driblet successful December, authoritative figures show.

But income volumes fell 5.1% compared with January past year, according to the Office for National Statistics.

Prices person been rising sharply since past year, chiefly owed to soaring vigor costs, which has enactment unit connected millions of households.

While the complaint of ostentation is starting to ease, astatine 10.1% it remains adjacent to a 40-year high.

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