{"id":555251,"date":"2026-04-28T15:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555251\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:22:08","slug":"data-shows-guernsey-inflation-up-since-christmas-but-down-on-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/555251\/","title":{"rendered":"Data shows Guernsey inflation up since Christmas but down on year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The data showed the biggest annual percentage rise was in the fuel and light category, which includes gas, oil and electricity in the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It had risen by 14.7% in the year ending in March &#8211; adding it had increased by 9.6% since the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">States officials said while there was no changes in the prices of electricity, gas or coal during the latest quarter, a rise in kerosene&#8217;s price had led to the increase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Figures also showed the RPI for food, and catering, had seen rises of 2.1% and 2% in the last quarter respectively while tobacco went up by 9.2%, housing rose by 2.5% and alcohol had an increase of 1.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The only area which had a fall in RPI over the previous quarter was the fares and other travel costs category, which decreased by 0.7%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The data showed the biggest annual percentage rise was in the fuel and light category, which includes gas,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-555251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555251","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=555251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}