The BBC reports:

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czxkvkwjl5eo]

The UK inflation rate fell to 3.6% in the year to October, but food prices rose again following a dip in September.

Prices are rising at their slowest pace for four months, helped by smaller rises in household energy costs and lower hotel costs, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

Does anyone really take any notice of the headline inflation figure when it is being pushed up by food prices and down by hotel costs?

It's got to be a big comfort to most people in the UK that the cost of their weekly shop keeps going up and that energy is not going up as much as last year but the cost of staying in a Premier Inn is going down.

The winter fuel payment has just arrived for many people so maybe a nice weekend in a warm hotel will be just the thing to banish the winter cold.