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BBC Breakfast aired from the National Glass Centre in Sunderland on Wednesday in order to speak to locals about the latest stark rise in the cost of living. Presenter Jon Kay thankfully managed to avoid smashing any of the delicate displays, only to destroy a delicate prop owned by the BBC.

Morning presenter Jon held up a smashed prop when BBC Breakfast cut back to the Glass Centre early Wednesday morning.

Surrounded by fragile, glass-blown pieces of art, Jon appeared to have stepped on a piece of equipment off-screen.

“Good morning, welcome to Breakfast this morning, live in Sunderland at the National Glass Centre,” he began.

“And I tempted fate. Because a few moments ago I said they shouldn’t have trusted me, clumsy old me, in the National Glass Centre.”

“And as I stood here waiting to talk to you just now, we’ve just had a breakage.”

Jon held up two broken pieces of clear plastic and looked rather sheepish as he presented them to the camera.

Thankfully, he assured viewers the BBC wouldn’t be getting into trouble with the Sunderland attraction.

“The good news: it’s not glass and it doesn’t belong to the National Glass Centre,” he explained.

“It belongs to the BBC, it’s part of our prop down there.”

However, the prop was clearly important, as Jon tucked the broken pieces away for the team to try and repair later.

“I’ll stick it in my pocket and we’ll try and fix it a bit later,” he added.

Jon then joked: “We do have glass-blowers on-site, so our sign might end up looking rather more ornate.”

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The presenter went on to explain the BBC was broadcasting from Sunderland as part of their Tackling it Together series.

Presenters from the channel will be talking to locals from all over the UK about how the cost of living crisis has affected them and their livelihoods.

As of the latest update on Monday, rising food prices have pushed the rate of inflation up by a staggering 10.1 percent.

Labour Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds criticised the latest budget plans from Prime Minister Liz Truss over the chaotic past three weeks.

“Obviously a lot of the real spike in inflation does come from the war in Ukraine and Russia’s aggression there,” he said.

“But what you need from the British government at a time like this, is obviously, first of all, don’t blow the economy up needlessly, as we saw with the mini-budget and the changes that have now taken place over what has been a pretty shocking and disgraceful three weeks.

“We’re facing a lot of transition in the economy… And what this means for the government is very, very real.”

BBC Breakfast airs weekdays from 6am on BBC One.

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