UK inflation rate falls to 8.7% in April - ONS

British consumer price inflation fell to 8.7% in April from March's 10.1%, figures from the Office for National Statistics showed on Wednesday.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast that the annual CPI rate would drop to 8.2% in April, moving further away from October's 41-year high of 11.1%.

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