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British shoppers spent big on food, summer clothing and end-of-season offers last month, boosting high street retail sales to a two-year high in August. Official measures of annual retail sales volumes rose by 2.5 per cent last month, higher than…

For 23 years, year after year, governments of both persuasions cut the real value of the winter fuelallowance. In 2000 it was set at £200. That’s where it stayed until this year, a reduction in its realvalue of nearly half.…