Prices of day-to-day essentials such as food and fuel are climbing, inflation is at dizzying heights and there is an overall cost-of-living crisis going on in the UK. Life is getting more expensive, a worrying premise for millions of families across the country.
But the public are not the only ones feeling the effect of the crisis.
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