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Nottingham Post
Nottingham Post
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Ellie Danemann

City centre protest calls out rise in prices and food inflation

The Nottingham People's Assembly were protesting yesterday, February 12, at the Brian Clough Statue calling for urgent government action to curtail rapidly rising prices.

Around 50 people took to the city centre to call for action against the rising prices. MP Nadia Whittome also made an appearance and called for a reverse in benefit cuts.

Stewart Halforty, Secretary of Nottingham People's Assembly said: "The rise in prices will cause untold hardship for the poorest in our country, who have already seen wages stagnate in the decade of austerity caused by the banking crisis in 2008.

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