![[Basket]](images/basket.png){kind=small}
Your order![[cover image]](images/issue/LR201608.jpg)
News
Flights and fuel push prices up
Higher air fares and dearer fuel saw inflation pushed up in June.
Under the Retail Prices Index (RPI) — the measure favoured by union negotiators — inflation was up to 1.6% from 1.4% in May.
For the government’s preferred measure — the Consumer Prices Index — the annual rate of inflation was up to 0.5% from 0.3% for the previous two months.