Official figures come after controversial plans to cut sickness and disability benefits were announced this week.

Items added and removed from the basket of goods used to calculate inflation give an insight into current fashions.

A slowdown in manufacturing was one of the main reasons for the dip, the Office for National Statistics says.

It is the first time in five years that more businesses have been added to the ONS register than removed.

Pay outstripped price rises by 3.4% between October and December while the unemployment rate remains unchanged.

Some 83% of homicide victims aged 13-19 were killed with a knife, up from 56% a decade ago.

There were around 852,00 Welsh speakers in Wales last September, annual population survey indicates.

Borrowing - the difference between spending and tax revenue - hit its highest December level for four years.