Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Locarno Film Festival’s Locarno Pro initiative dedicated to pics in post is set to look at German films that are in their final stage of production for its upcoming edition.The fest, located in the Italian-speaking region of Switzerland, in a statement said that the initiative, now in its tenth edition, will celebrate the up-and-coming cinema of a country that has been “crucial to the history” of the fest. Locarno Pro is now looking closer to home after being a springboard for pics from Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Israel, Poland, the Baltic Countries, Portugal, Serbia and Switzerland itself.“German filmmakers and producers and the work they have given us has been at the heart of so many memorable editions of the Locarno Film Festival, the fest said in a statement.
The same Tesco items two years apart shows how much pre-pandemic prices have risen
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The cost of living is soaring and if there's one place you'll notice it more it's at the supermarket checkout.
Grocery prices have been climbing for quite some time and there's growing concern that rising inflation is having a disproportionate impact on poorer households.
It's an issue that's been taken up by poverty campaigner Jack Monroe this week after she highlighted how official inflation figures don't reflect the impact of price increases on different income groups.
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She shared examples of how 29p packets of Smart Price pasta have now been scrapped at Asda and replaced with 70p bags as the cheapest option.
Also, how she used to be able to get 10 vegetable stock cubes for 10p from Sainsbury's Basics, but these are no longer available.
It's a familiar stories at supermarkets with cash-strapped families struggling to make ends meet.
And with fuel bills also taking a hit - and set to rise even more - choosing between eating and heating is becoming a real prospect for far too many people.
Where do you do your big shop? Have you noticed prices rising? Let us know your views in the comments here.
With the cost of food one of the biggest challenges facing shoppers right now, we've been taking a look at just how much they have risen over recent years.
We repeated the same Tesco shop from this time two years ago to see just how much things have gone up and we were shocked by some of the rises.
At £83.26 compared with the 2020 price of £70.61, the total shop cost almost a fifth more (17.9%) than in pre-pandemic times.
Out of the 50 items we bought, 32 had increased - with five items either doubling or more than doubling in price.
Seven items cost the
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