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A spurt of profitability followed, but this year is looking to be once again in the red.

But inflation has been a global problem, mostly a consequence of the spurt in post-pandemic demand for goods.

Left behind by his class-mates' growth spurts and struggling to get to grips with the rules, he then stopped playing for two years.

But a timely growth spurt in his late teens took him to 6ft 4in and, now his body has got used to the idea, the 22-year-old is starting to look highly dangerous.

Harris’ professed desire to lower food prices led to a spurt of news articles and columns asserting that she was proposing “price controls.”