UK News 24-03-2005 who: Office for National Statistics what: Says hamsters "have burrowed into the nation`s shopping baskets" when: Monday snippet: A live animal has been listed on the annual Consumer Price Index for the first time since the contents of a fictitious British "shopping basket" was first published in 1947 as a way of measuring inflation, says The Times. And in other consumer survey news, The Guardian says British people are increasingly rebelling against "supermarket dominance of the food market, the rise of banking call-centres in place of face-to-face service, and the seemingly unstoppable tide of chain pubs and bars squeezing out traditional pubs". [... more]

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