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Wed 01 Jan 2007Consumers face hike in bread pricesConsumers facing increases in their mortgage payments, gas and electricity are now to be hit with an additional price rise on their daily bread, it emerged today.Continuing dramatic increases in the international price of wheat have driven up the production costs for bread, according to the Irish Bread Bakers Association (IBBA).