Inflation has reached record levels

'No peak in sight' for food price rises with inflation spiking to record of nearly 15 per cent

Rishi Sunak is close to agreeing deal with US to ease winter gas shortages

Rishi Sunak close to sealing gas deal with the US to ease winter shortages

Cost of living payments are being made from Tuesday

Cost of living payments: Check if you are eligible for £324 help and when it will arrive in your account

Sir Steve Webb has warned against the move

Jeremy Hunt warned against 'alienating' voters over £10bn tax raid on pensions savings

Irene needs help to fix her freezing home in Huyton

Pensioner 'faces freezing to death' and is surviving on toast as Britain’s cost of living crisis laid bare

The Bank of England is hiking interest rates to tackle soaring inflation - but mortgage holders are set to suffer as a result

Millions face mortgage misery: What the Bank of England's interest rate rise means for you

UK Cost Of Living Crisis

Supermarkets using security barriers to protect staff from desperate shoppers snatching yellow-label items

Pensioner examining her energy bills

When do pensioners get their cost of living payment 2022?

Cost of living payment as someone works out household bills on calculator

When do you get the second cost of living payment from the government?

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will outline his financial plans in November

Threat of biggest tax burden since World War II as Jeremy Hunt's November Budget 'could contain £25b in tax hikes'

Duncan Bannatyne rejected criticism over his pools

Health club Dragon Duncan Bannatyne turns down pool temperatures by 1C as customers complain they're too cold

The PM is expected to expand windfall taxes

Sunak to expand windfall tax after Shell avoids paying up despite profit jump

Some schools are considering reducing to a four-day week due to rising costs

Four day week? Fury after parents warned some schools considering shorter weeks amid 'catastrophic' cost crisis

Braemar, Scotland.

'Log bank' set up to keep people warm in UK's coldest town amid fears energy costs will put lives at risk

Pasta and vegetable oil are among the products seeing price rises well above the level of inflation

Price of pasta and vegetable oil soars 60 per cent as cost of shopping basket essentials rockets

Greenpeace staged a demonstration in Parliament

'Chaos costs lives': Greenpeace holds sit down protest in Parliament over soaring energy bills

UK economy could be 'much better' in six months as prices are already falling, M&S boss says

UK economy could be 'much better' in six months as prices are already falling, M&S boss says

Bills could soar to £5,000.

Brits face crippling £5k energy bills after Hunt rips up mini-Budget and u-turns on energy price guarantee