The Office for National Statistics has updated the basket of goods used to calculate CPI inflation - which sets increases to the state pension - to include iPads and teen fiction.
The organisation said tablet computers had been added as they were a significant and growing market while booming sales of books like the Twilight series meant they also had to join the basket. ...
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