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To: TobagoJack who wrote (190089)	7/22/2022 12:30:25 AM
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(89) bloomberg.com The Breakfast Index Shows Prices Soaring for UK Consumers Cost of fry-up ingredients has risen to around £31 in June Index gives an insight into inflation crisis facing Britons Leonid Bershidsky July 22, 2022, 12:00 PM GMT+8 A full English breakfast.Photographer: Simon Dawson/BloombergBritain is battling the worst inflation in decades, and surging grocery prices are pushing many people into food poverty for the first time in a generation. As shelf prices rise alongside soaring fuel and energy bills, many households are struggling to make ends meet. Bloomberg’s monthly Breakfast Index launching Friday aims to provide one insight into the cost-of-living crisis facing millions. Crunching various data from the Office for National Statistics, the index tracks the rising prices of some of the key ingredients in an English breakfast - sausages, bacon, eggs, bread, butter, tomatoes, mushrooms, milk, tea and coffee. The first findings from the inaugural index are stark. The cost of a fry-up is increasingly burning a hole in shoppers’ pockets. The average cost of ingredients -- using standard pack sizes such as a dozen eggs and pint of milk -- has jumped nearly 14.5% from a year ago, with an average increase of 2.8% in June alone. It costs £31.46 ($37.62) to buy all the products required, up from £27.92 in June 2021, the data show. If baked beans, which are not separately tracked by the ONS, are included, the average basket price would be even higher. Tinned baked beans were recently at the heart of a high-profile spat between Tesco Plc and Kraft Heinz Co. with Britain’s biggest grocer stating it would not pass on “unjustifiable” price increases to shoppers. Month-on-month the picture is not much better with prices of sausages, butter, milk and bacon all jumping by more than 5% since May. The increase in prices is helping to fuel a trend of shoppers buying fewer items and switching from branded goods to own-label products to save money. Prices of basic ingredients are on the rise. “Consumers do appear to be doing switches within their baskets,” said Ocado Group Plc Chief Executive Officer Tim Steiner, giving the example of shoppers buying hamburgers rather than fillet steaks, or choosing plain tomato sauce rather than bolognaise. “It is challenging times and the cost-of-living crisis is hard on consumers.” Britons Trade Fillet Steaks for Burgers as Living Costs Soar Low-income families continue to be disproportionately affected by the inflation crisis. The latest Asda Income Tracker shows that 20% of UK households now have negative disposable income because their take-home pay no longer covers spending on essentials such as groceries, energy bills, transport costs, mortgage or rent. “All this means that people will be feeling the pinch during our first restriction-free summer since 2019,” said Fraser McKevitt, head of retail and consumer insight at Kantar. Sent from my iPad

To: TobagoJack who wrote (190089)	7/22/2022 8:37:07 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 218913

Orange Line train bursts into flames on bridge over Mystic, T passenger plucked from river (072122 Medford, MA): MBTA officials inspect an Orange line train at Wellington Station after it caught fire this morning on Thursday,July 21, 2022 in Medford, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald) By GAYLA CAWLEY \| gcawley@bostonherald.com and TODD PRUSSMAN \| todd.prussman@bostonherald.com \| Boston Herald PUBLISHED: July 21, 2022 at 7:59 a.m. \| UPDATED: July 21, 2022 at 7:12 p.m. An Orange Line train burst into flames Thursday morning, sending more than 200 passengers scrambling with one woman jumping into the Mystic River and others in the front car punching out windows to escape. Multiple videos show a flashing fire bursting from an area over the train’s front wheel assemblies with smoke pouring out. MBTA General Manager Steve Poftak said no injuries were reported in the smokey conflagration that left the southbound Orange Line train stranded on the Dana Bridge over the Mystic on the approach into Somerville’s Assembly Square at about 6:45 a.m. “Obviously, this is a frightening incident and not the type of service that we want to provide to our customers,” Poftak said. “I want to offer my apology to the folks who were on that train, who had to experience that.” A video shared with the Herald by Jennifer Thomson-Sullivan shows the frantic moments during evacuation of the train. Passengers are moving back and forth in the car, calling out directions to each other while others bail out of a punched-out window to the arms of other passengers on the rail bed below. Poftak said T personnel evacuated passengers through the rear of the train, but many chose to self-evacuate through four windows that were removed. State Police said one of its Marine Unit boats responded to the scene for a woman in the Mystic River “who had apparently jumped from the train into the water.” “When we reached her, she declined assistance and swam to shore on her own,” State Police spokesman David Procopio said. RELATED ARTICLES MBTA is not ‘necessarily worth saving,’ says transportation committee chair MBTA photo shows ‘severely deteriorated’ Government Center garage column that shut down service Boston woman accused of pouring beer on MBTA bus driver, spitting and biting transit police Legislators grill MBTA chief, transportation secretary over T failings, secrecyThe fried train was brought to Wellington Station for inspection. An initial investigation found a 6-foot-wide metal side panel came loose from the car and made contact with the third rail, which resulted in sparking, smoke and fire on the underside of the train, Poftak said. Poftak said the 42-year-old train had last been inspected on June 23 and the sill that popped off had passed that inspection. The T is in the process of replacing its Orange and Red Line fleet with new cars as part of a $1 billion contract with Chinese firm CRRC. Photos shared with the Herald depict passengers walking on the bridge tracks after being evacuated from the train. A T spokesperson estimated the walk was about 1,500 to 2,000 feet to the nearest station. The T has notified the Federal Transit Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board of the incident. Power was shut off between Wellington and Assembly Square and the Somerville and Medford Fire Departments, along with MBTA emergency personnel, responded. Shuttle buses replaced Orange Line service in the area while the investigation took place. Train service resumed by 11 a.m., Poftak said. The fire on the Orange Line is the latest in myriad serious safety problems on the T and follows a legislative hearing Monday that had lawmakers grilling the state’s transportation brass over efforts to improve operations. “The images of this morning’s Orange Line fire and the on-track evacuation of passengers are dramatic illustrations of the public safety threats posed by the current state of affairs at the MBTA,” said Joint Committee on Transportation co-chairs state Sen. Brendan Crighton, D-Lynn, and Rep. William Straus, D-Mattapoisett. “As we await findings from the investigations to come, it is clear that despite assurances from the Baker administration that the MBTA’s safety management program is now on a proper footing, significant improvement is still needed.” Federal officials with the FTA are currently working on a safety review of the agency and delivered a month ago a directive for immediate improvements in management and operations. “The FTA oversight adds to our ability to make the system safe,” Poftak said. “Transit as a whole and the MBTA in itself is significantly safer than most other forms of transportation, so I remain confident in the MBTA’s safety. I think there’s a lot we can do to make it safer.” (072122 Medford, MA): Orange line train sits on the tracks at Wellington Station after it caught fire this morning on Thursday,July 21, 2022 in Medford, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)(072122 Medford, MA):MBTA officials inspect an Orange line train at Wellington Station after it caught fire this morning on Thursday,July 21, 2022 in Medford, MA. (Staff Photo By Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald) Tags: Fire MBTA Orange Line safety Somerville Transit transportation Gayla Cawley Gayla Cawley is the transportation reporter for the Boston Herald. She previously worked as the news editor for the Daily Item. The University of Connecticut graduate can often be found spinning along to virtual training videos on her studio-cycle bike. gcawley@bostonherald.com Follow Gayla Cawley @GaylaCawley Todd Prussman \| city editor