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UK cost of inflation on communities

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Severe effect of cost of living on communities

As the UK reaches the highest inflation rate for about 30 years, the cost of living crisis is having a severe effect on communities.

With the approach of the Indian religious festival of Diwali,  the cost of living crisis has been having a severe effect on the mood of celebration...Also China's president, Xi Jinping addresses the Communist Party Congress. Joiningto discuss these and other stories are Laurie Goering, a US-born journalist and head of the climate programme at the Thomson Reuters Foundation in London and Afzal Ashraf, an expert on defence, security and international relations at the University of Loughborough here in the UK.

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