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| UK inflation rises to 0.3% in January | UK inflation rises to 0.3% in January |
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| UK inflation edged up to a 12 month high in January, as a fall in petrol prices eased. | |
| Inflation, as measured by the Consumer Prices Index, rose by 0.3%. It was helped by smaller falls in food and fuel prices than a year ago. | |
| Annual inflation has been below the Bank of England's 2% target for two years, and last year it was zero. | |
| The BoE said earlier this month that it expected inflation to stay below 1% this year. | |
| North Sea oil prices dropped to a 12 year low of $27.10 last month and have almost halved over the past 12 months. | |
| But the Office for National Statistics measure of fuels and lubricants costs was only 7.3% lower than in January 2015, the smallest drop since November 2014. | |
| Continuing low inflation makes the chance of an interest rate rise in the near future unlikely. | |
| Few economists expect the BoE to raise rates before late this year at the earliest, and some analysts see a risk that the BoE could instead have cut to rates below the record low of 0.5% where they have been for almost seven years. |