Marown commissioners have announced an eye-watering rates rise for this year.
The board says its rates will be set at 239p in the pound - last year the figure was just 195p.
That amounts to a rise of 22.5 per cent.
In January, the government's official rate of inflation stood at 2.4 per cent.
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