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MSE News: Bills rising slower than inflation

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Household bills and expenses are rising slower than overall inflation, this month's MSE Bills Tracker shows – but don't rest on your laurels as it's likely you could still make big savings...
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Electricity, Gas, Insurance all up around 7%.
Water rates 1.8%? Mines just gone up by 8% from April, not included in this calculation but there's a theme developing?
EE and Sky wacking up their charges in EE's case by the RPI in December about 4%.
Even with shopping around there's only so much you can do to bring costs down.
Life is getting much more expensive.
As for the rental equivalence that's 1.2% and if you have had any work done lately you are looking at labour charges of £40 to £90 an hour for run of the mill work, they may be qualified tradesmen but they are not geniuses!
The article mentions that:-
TV license and subscriptions. These include TV licence costs and digital TV subscriptions. For the 12 months to January 2018, these increased by 0.8%.
It would have been helpful to have a breakdown of the figures as the BBC License went up by 1.58% to £150.50 from £147 . This is still good value in my opinion. What else went up or down in the TV field ? This may be news to some who do not spectate beyond the BBC.
J_B.