The Bank also considers other measures of inflation when deciding how to change rates, such as price rises in different parts of the economy like the services sector - which includes everything from restaurants to hairdressers.

Fauzia is a trained hairdresser, but cannot work because of her mammoth commute.

From the age of seven Anastasia Cameron was turned away from hairdressers because she was told they "don't do Afro hair".

The court heard Ms Valentine later discovered the hairdresser had fallen out with Mr Wellings and moved to live with a friend in Dorset and was "back to her normal self".

She said she first noticed something was wrong while at the hairdresser one day.