BBC News reports Eastbourne in East Sussex became the first council in the country to declare a cost of living emergency earlier in the month, with Somerset becoming the second just last week

Meanwhile, Mendip District Councillors voted through a motion last week Monday, whereby a local authority can write to the Government asking for more action and organise a conference with support organisations amidst the cost of living crisis.

Mendip is the first district council in the UK to adopt the stance, which is designed to acknowledge and address rural poverty due to rising food and fuel prices.

The council's chief executive, and its finance officer, have been specifically instructed to write to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Thérèse Coffey MP, to express Mendip's opposition to the suspension of the triple-lock on pensions - the policy used to set how much the state pension rises by per year.

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