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Hello and welcome to this episode of Moneybox Live, the podcast about your money.

Today, the cost of living is rising at its fastest rate in 40 years.

Food, shelter, heating, all the basics are going up in price and much

else besides. In today's program, our panel of experts will be sharing their tips on how to

try to cut costs to minimize your own personal rate of inflation. On the panel today is Sarah Pennells,

consumer finance specialist at Royal London,

helping customers with budgeting and debt and dealing with life shocks. Calam Hewitt from the

Sanctuary Trust, which runs a food bank for people in northwest Wales and Greater Manchester,

and the BBC's Cost of Living correspondent, Colletta Smith, who's got all the detail on what's rising

by how much and what help is out there. We'll come to them in a moment, but first, we've been

speaking to shoppers in Norwich and Stafford about how inflation is changing the way they're living

their lives. My bills have gone up. Rent, luckily has stayed the same for me, but it is that

uncertainty of not knowing, definitely staying in more, so doing grocery shopping rather than going

out for meals and drinks, prioritising that rather than cutting down that one or two things just

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