{"id":431948,"date":"2026-02-18T08:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T08:22:08","slug":"uk-inflation-rate-falls-to-3-in-year-to-january-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/431948\/","title":{"rendered":"UK inflation rate falls to 3% in year to January &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airfares, bread, cereal &#8211; what&#8217;s behind this fall in the inflation rate?published at 07:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p>07:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-3u1n9h-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/c5169b9f-917a-481d-b6d1-a0a62d7c7b65.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Mitchell Labiak<br \/>Business reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meat, motor fuels, and airfares were picked out by the ONS as some of the things that helped the inflation fate fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Drivers at the pump may have noticed the average price of petrol fell by 3.1p per litre between December 2025 and January 2026, compared with a rise of 0.8p per litre the year before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, the pattern of airfares rising in December and then falling in January was &#8220;less pronounced than in previous years&#8221;, the ONS says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A change in food prices also helped to push inflation down. Over the month of January, food prices fell &#8211; helping to lower the rate of price rises for the year to January. Meat as well as bread and cereals were two of the biggest drivers of this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bread in a supermarket\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/aff653db-5bd8-418c-93bf-6a237a3b3476.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airfares, bread, cereal &#8211; what&#8217;s behind this fall in the inflation rate?published at 07:30 GMT 07:30 GMT Mitchell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-431948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}