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Family homes: Supersize my house
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 18/02/2008
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Across the most exclusive suburbs large family homes are being pulled down to make way for mini-mansions. Caroline McGhie investigates a building boom
It is Black Monday, one month ago: the world's stock markets are sliding, and estate agent Richard Winter is turning his BMW into the roads of some of the most prosperous suburbs in the country. He wants to show me how the wealth created over the past decade is being turned into property. In one road, almost every other house is being demolished and replaced with a huge mansion.
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Standard of living will fall, warns Mervyn King
By Edmund Conway, Economics Editor
Last Updated: 6:35am GMT 14/02/2008
Families have been warned to expect a decline in their standard of living as rising food and fuel prices place household finances under severe strain.
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Britons have enjoyed a decade of high spending on luxury goods, holidays and second homes, fuelled by low interest rates, easy credit and near-record lows in living costs.
Mervyn King has not ruled out the possibility of a recession this year
But Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England, issued a stark warning that this period had come to an end.
In an uncharacteristically blunt statement, he said rising inflation and the fallout from global economic turmoil would take its toll on the spending power of British households.
Mr King's warning came during his most sombre assessment of the economy since he took over as Bank of England Governor five years ago.
"The higher level of energy and food prices is a genuine reduction in our standard of living relative to where it would otherwise have been," he said.
"This is because of the higher prices that all of us are having to pay."
Inflation has risen to a seven-month high, according to official figures, driven by significant increases in petrol and food prices.
Fuel inflation is running at 19.3 per cent, the highest since records began in January 1997.