UK inflation fell for the third straight month to 10.1% as falling air fares and fuel costs drove a bigger-than-expected fall in January, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said today.
The ONS said Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation dropped from 10.5% in December. Many economists had been expecting a drop to 10.3% last month.
Grant Fitzner, chief economist for the ONS, said: "Although still at a high level, inflation eased again in January.