When your job is your way of life, the cost of living crisis bites doubly hard on livelihoods.
By Kevin ShoesmithMany businesses are looking down the barrel of spiralling costs and shrinking demand. But for members of Hull Fair - Europe's largest travelling funfair - increases in costs and a drop in customers could spell the end to a way of life. Ahead of its opening, BBC News' Kevin Shoesmith went to find out what show owners think the future holds.Only the occasional clatter of metal on metal or friendly exchange can be heard piercing the silence.
With a drum now costing about £245, nearly double what some owners paid just a few years ago, it is not hard to see why the fuel has been given this moniker. Sharing generators - and therefore fuel costs - with other ride owners is one practical measure some are taking to widen their margins.
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