Hard-up families struggling to cope with rocketing energy prices and rises in the cost of living have been dealt another blow with research that shows the cost of sending a child to school has risen to £1,077 – the fastest rate for more than 10 years.
Rising food prices have hit the cost of school meals and packed lunches and high petrol prices have made the school run more expensive.
Team GB’s success at the Olympics this year has not only given us a new set of sporting heroes but has got kids swapping the sofa for sporting activities.
Latest research out today from supermarket ASDA, showed that over a third of children’s attitudes toward sport had changed with over a quarter of children going for swimming lessons and other sport seeing significant uplifts.
ASDA announced today it is helping cash-strapped customers fight back against inflation this weekend, cutting the cost of milk to just 50p for two pints. The last time customers in the UK could buy milk at this price was way back in 2001.
Milk has been one of the core grocery products hit hardest by inflationary pressures in recent months with the price going up by around 21 per cent in the last year.
ASDA’s price cut is across whole, semi-skimmed and skimmed fresh milk where the price of two pints is being slashed from 80p to 50p – a whopping saving of 38 per cent – and will be available in all stores from Friday to Sunday inclusive.
Today (Wednesday 20th August) ASDA unveils a new flat rate UK pricing structure for its Pay As You Go mobile phone service, which is set to save 45million UK PAYG users £2.38billion a year. Calls will be slashed to 8p a minute and texts to just 4p, making it Britain’s lowest PAYG operator.
This latest price cut will be a warm welcome to cash strapped consumers battling the credit crunch in the week that other call providers have increased tariffs. The new rates are 80% cheaper than Virgin Mobile and customers will be charged the same rate whatever time of day they call and to any UK mobile network or landline, with no hidden charges
Today, bottles at ASDA get a green makeover with the launch of an innovative recycled cardboard version: the first milk bottle in the UK to be 91 per cent recycled (from waste office paper) and 99 per cent recyclable. The two litre milk bottle, created by GreenBottle, has a carbon footprint that is 48 per cent lower than plastic1.
Chris Brown, Head of Ethical and Sustainable Sourcing at ASDA, comments: “Milk is one of our highest selling products, and as such, we have a responsibility to develop alternative packaging making it easier for our customers to go green and to help them recycle at home.
IT’S likely to the wettest August on record – and it’s seen shoppers turning in their thousands to traditional winter warmers.
Comfort food is firmly at top of people’s shopping lists as they abandon the usual seasonal summer fare in favour of food normally associated with the colder months.
And – while weather experts predict we may be heading into a slightly warmer Bank Holiday – shoppers are showing little signs of lighting up the barbecue. Instead it’s warming pies and soups that are on the menu.
