Media coverage

BBC Website
UK life costs 'at least £13,400'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7481927.stm

Mark Easton’s UK – BBC website
Basics of Britain
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/markeaston/2008/07/01/index.html

Have Your Say – BBC website
What price are you paying to live?
http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5036&edition=1&ttl=20090309154640

Metro Website
Happiness is... £13,400 a year
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=200841&in_page_id=34&in_a_source=

Loughborough News
Minimum living standards: public consultation shows what people find acceptable
http://www.inloughborough.com/news/001357/Minimum%20living%20standards:%20public%20consultation%20shows%20what%20people%20find%20acceptable

Pensions Reforms
http://www.pensionreforms.com/Preview.aspx?241

Loughborough University, The View - Autumn/Winter 2008
The essentials of life
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/theview/essentials/index.html

Liberal Conspiracy
What’s the minimum you can survive on?
http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/2008/07/03/whats-the-minimum-you-can-survive-on/

Guardian.co.uk
Basic standard of living costs £13,400
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/02/welfare

Mirror.co.uk
One family on how they survive on £27,000 a year
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/07/03/one-family-on-how-they-survive-on-27-000-a-year-115875-20629428/

New Statesman
How much is enough?
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/07/poverty-income-standard

Politics.co.uk
JRF: Minimum living standards: Public consultation shows what people find acceptable
http://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/press-releases/jrf-minimum-living-standards-public-consultation-shows-what-people-find-acceptable-$1229891$366200.htm

The Sun
You need 13k to live a 'basic' life
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1374739.ece

Daily Mail
Singles need £13,400 to lead a 'decent' life, claims report
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1030950/Singles-need-13-400-lead-decent-life-claims-report.html

Yes Loans
Minimum standard of living costs £13,400 per year
http://www.yesloansuk.com/news/18666864/Minimum-standard-of-living-costs-%C3%82%C2%A313,400-per-year.html

News & Star
It costs 'at least £13,400 a year to live'
http://newsandstar.co.uk/news/it_costs_at_least_13_400_a_year_to_live

Scotsman
Britons 'need £13k' to earn a decent standard of living
http://www.scotsman.com/latestnews/Britons-39need-13k39-to-earn.4245070.jp

Wigan Today
True cost of living is £13,400
http://www.wigantoday.net/wigannews/True-cost-of-living-is.4262304.jp?CommentPage=1&CommentPageLength=10

BBC Radio4 Today Programme
£13000 new 'benchmark' for poverty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7485000/7485037.stm

Luxury or necessity?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7484000/7484147.stm

BBC News
Basic cost of living revealed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7484555.stm

Thought for the Day, 3 July 2008
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/thought/documents/t20080703.shtml

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