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Consultancy CEBR said 2018's big freeze and heatwave would end up costing consumers about £7 extra per month. It follows price warnings from farmers' representatives about peas, lettuces and potatoes. Wholesale prices of other vegetables have already soared by up to 80% since the start of the year. But the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) explained that these increases can take up to 18 months to fully have an effect on shoppers. "So, while the worst of the recent heat may have passed, the cost to consumers looks set to climb," it warned. The UK saw record temperatures in June, July and August which caused widespread drought and crop failures. This, along with a "wet, cold and challenging" winter, particularly the cold spell caused by the Beast from the East, has put stress on farming costs and yields, CEBR said. As a result, it said: It said these "wholesale price shocks" were likely to push up consumer costs by about £45m per week - equivalent to £7.15 per month per household. 'Effectively bare' Tod Bulmer from Kenyon Hall Farm near Warrington said yields from his fruit and cereal harvest had been half of what he would normally expect. He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the potential price rise would compensate "a little bit but not enough". He added that the low yields meant dairy farmers were having to pay more for their feed. National Farmers' Union president Minette Batters said the shelves for feeding livestock were "effectively bare" and that dairy farmers were having to rely on silage meant for winter use. "Many farmers are looking at £60,000 of added costs," she said. She added that she was still waiting on the government to deliver on a promise to take action. Following a drought summit earlier this month with the NFU, Environment Secretary Michael Gove said the government would do "whatever it takes" to maintain food supplies. Earlier this month, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board warned that livestock and vegetable prices would be a "little bit higher right the way through until next spring" because of weather issues. Shortages of vegetables also helped drive food price inflation to 1.6% in July - up from the 1.2% in May and June, according to the British Retail Consortium and Nielsen. A spokeswoman for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs said: "Food prices are affected by a number of factors aside from the weather, such as fuel costs, international commodity markets and exchange rates." She said steps had been taken to help those affected, including allowing farmers to take more water from reservoirs and providing flexibility on funding. She added that the hot weather had helped boost products such as soft fruits and wine. But the CEBR said there was bad news for wine fans too, as severe hailstorms in the French wine regions of Bordeaux, Champagne and Cognac "have eliminated millions of bottles of product".
Meat, vegetable and dairy prices are set to rise "at least" 5% in the coming months because of the UK's extreme weather this year, research suggests.

A stretch of the cliff close to the Jon Egging Memorial in East Cliff fell away at 05:00 BST, taking with it an array of fencing and benches. Luke Watkins, assistant senior ranger for Bournemouth Borough Council, said: "It's one of the largest slips I've seen." No-one was injured but the area has been cordoned off by the authority. More movement is expected at the site over the next two days. 'Benches still falling' Cracks started appearing on the promenade on Saturday, leading the council to close off the area. Mr Watkins said: "Bits and pieces are still coming down, but the priority is to keep everyone away and the area safe. "A substantial amount of sediment has dropped down, and unfortunately influenced all the buildings down there, so everything's going to remain closed for the foreseeable future. "It's still definitely unstable, the benches are still falling down." Mr Watkins said because it took place in the early hours of the morning "there was no-one around and our rangers were the first people on site, so there was no loss of life and no-one injured which was the main thing". There is sculpture at the top of the cliff; a memorial to Flt Lt Jon Egging who died when his Hawk T1 aircraft crashed at the 2011 Bournemouth Air Festival. Emily Hudson, BBC Radio Solent The sound of crumbling rock and gravel greeted me as I arrived at this scene, and I saw one of the blue park benches topple down right in front of me. It's taken out the East Cliff toilet block entirely and left a large amount of sandy gravel on top of the old East Cliff café. Large lumps of rock have fallen into one of the cliff lifts, knocking it into the other one. The council says it's significantly undermined the supporting structure for the lift.
A huge landslip in Bournemouth has damaged a cliff lift and crushed a toilet block.

Mr Farage said UKIP was "its own force" and rejected any electoral pact with the Tories for the general election. He was campaigning with two ex-Tories - Mark Reckless, who is standing for UKIP in Rochester, and Douglas Carswell, who has become UKIP's first elected MP. Tory and Labour MPs have called for a response to UKIP's surge. Mr Reckless, whose resignation as the Conservative MP for Rochester and Strood triggered a by-election, said UKIP would "bring decisions back from Westminster" and "put local communities in charge". Mr Carswell urged voters to "choose change". He praised Mr Reckless for his decision to seek voters' approval in a by-election and criticised other parties for conducting "a highly personal, aggressive smear campaign" against the UKIP candidate. Mr Farage said the result of Thursday's poll in Clacton, which Mr Carswell won for UKIP by 12,404 votes, was "absolutely phenomenal". He again dismissed Conservative claims that voters who switched support from the Tories to UKIP risked handing power to Labour. The evidence of Clacton was "vote UKIP, get UKIP", he said. The Rochester by-election is expected to take place next month, but a date has not been set. 'Good protest vote' Mr Farage said his party was "not a splinter" of the Tories and dismissed questions about any electoral pact with them. "We want to win our own representation in Westminster and we believe only by doing that can we fundamentally change British politics," he said. "To sell out so that one or two people can have ministerial positions is not what UKIP's about. "I don't trust David Cameron. I don't believe a word David Cameron says and for that reason it would be fruitless to even enter into any negotiation." Mr Reckless has reiterated that UKIP wants to "rebalance" immigration, which he said had held down wages for some workers and increased competition for jobs. The Labour candidate for Rochester and Strood, Naushabah Khan, said voters had more pressing issues, such as "a hospital which is failing" and "60% of our primary schools which are failing". The Liberal Democrat candidate, Geoff Juby, said his party "seem to be out on the streets a bit more" than Labour and the Conservatives. Clive Gregory, standing for the Green Party, said a vote for him would be "a good protest vote" whereas UKIP represented "the same nonsense as the Conservatives". The Conservatives will conduct a full postal ballot of constituents to select their candidate. 'Mutually-assured destruction' Asked about the national picture, Tory MP Jacob Rees Mogg renewed calls for his party to make a pact with UKIP. He told the Times newspaper that the impact UKIP has had on the Labour vote in northern England had been encouraging. "We should think about what that means in terms of the UKIP-Conservative relationship because the Conservative family could win a majority on that basis," he said. "Otherwise, the only thing we manage is mutually-assured destruction." Mr Cameron on Friday repeated his warning that voting for UKIP could hand the general election to Labour. This would mean "no action on immigration, no European referendum and - most importantly - you won't get a continuation of the plan that is delivering success for our economy and security for our people", he said. However, in the wake of Labour's narrow victory over UKIP in another by-election this week, in Heywood, several of the party's MPs have expressed concerns about leader Ed Miliband's electoral strategy. Former pensions minister Frank Field said "very large numbers" of Labour voters were unhappy with the way the party was performing. "If last night's [Thursday's] vote heralds the start of UKIP's serious assault into Labour's neglected core vote, all bets are off for safer, let alone marginal seats at the next election," Mr Field said. "Until we get that central to our message we're in trouble." Shadow chancellor Ed Balls insisted Labour did have the answers to voters' concerns. "If you want reform in Europe, tough and fair immigration rules, a national health service free at the point of use, a higher minimum wage and action in a fair way to tackle the cost of living crisis... there's no point in voting Tory, [and] there's no point in voting UKIP," he said.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said his party is "targeting everybody", as he campaigns in Kent ahead of the Rochester and Strood by-election.

