Everything quoted here is in British pounds. 100 pence to £1.
This is living in Poole in Dorset, England.

My rent per week for a bedsit is £76. This is one, average sized, furnished room on the top (3rd) floor. The whole terraced house has 6 such rooms all the same price. Council tax is included in the rent. We have no gas only electric. Everyone has to pay their own TV licence fee which is £135 per year. If you lived in a shared house you would only need ONE licence for the whole house.
Because our landlord had the bright idea of giving each room its own room number - 1 to 6 and registered this with the local council, the TV licence people deem each room as a separate dwelling.
I am about 3 miles from Poole town centre and about the same distance from Bournemouth town centre. I am 1.3 miles from the beach which is SUPPOSED to be the most expensive property in the world called 'Sandbanks'

The room has an electric meter which takes £1 coins, over a year costs me an average of £7 per week. This allows for a small freezer and separate small fridge running 24/7. I am in a lot and use more than the 'average' with electric kettle, toaster and 32" TV, computer and microwave.
I shop at Tesco and Lidl.
4 pints of milk (2.27l) is £1.53p
6 cheap eggs 0.88p
White sugar 0.90 a kilo.
750 ml Olive oil £3.00

Thick sliced bread for toast Tesco own brand 0.75p
100g Freeze dried GranArom Instant coffee from Lidl £1.35 although for Kenco Blue top 100g from Tesco is £2.46!
Whole Roasted Hot chicken from Tesco Deli £4.17p
Bertorelli (olive oil) spread 500grams £1.35p
Bananas (Tesco) 0.86p per kilo.
50 grams Golden Virginia or Old Holborn rolling tobacco £11.20p Rizla papers 0.25p a pack.
Petrol Unleaded £1.03p per litre Diesel £1.15 per litre
Iceberg lettuce 0.80p
Cucumber 0.60p
As a single male on my own I spend about £20 per week on food. I never eat out but if you bought a chinese you would need to reckon on £10 for one.
Buses to town centre with a daily ticket £2.70. As a single journey one way trip £1.60
I am close to everything I need and would not need to run a car but I do.
Yearly road tax on the car is £190. which is about average. Due to my age (old) and having many years accident free the insurance is only £88 per year This is VERY cheap.
I would expect a 30 year old with an average ordinary car would pay £300per year with a clean licence. That figure for me is FULLY COMPREHENSIVE which is the highest of 3 levels.
Clothes are very cheap is you look around. We have a Primark in Poole, jeans £6 a pair,
T shirts £3, sox and underpants 5 pairs £5.
Laundry: If you don't have a washing machine in the property you'll need a launderette.
Small washer £3.20 about £2 will dry it. Say £5 a week 1 person without soap powder.
Large washer £5.
Fish and Chips take out £3.50 (small fish portion COD)

Wages: Working in a shop £6-6.50 per hour
Bus driver £9 per hour
Delivery driver £7-£8 per hour.
Whatever your gross wage is take off 25% for TAX and NI
Taxe is PAYE=Pay As You Earn deducted by the employer.
NI = National Insurance gives you free healthcare.
Cigarettes, alcohol and Petrol are very highly taxed - probably the highest in Europe.

Avearge bottle of wine one up from Vin de Table about £3.99 a bottle. Same bottle in France for £1.50. Litre of Vodka £15-£18

Mens haircut basic £10

Pay as you go charges about 20p per minute Sms Texts 10p each within UK

Post a letter slowest rate 30p stamp

Bottle of shower gel £1.50

Deodorant £1.50

32" LCD TV Samsung avearge £399

Netbook Samsung NC10 £300

Cheapest food is probably Lidl but not such a large range. Asda and tesco sells clothes, very good value and quality.

For cheap electrical stuff eBay or Amazon UK.

Cheap cars available for £1000 but we have a yearly test which is very stringent and costs £54. If you buy a car make sure it has a ONE year MoT test on it. If it fails garage bills are high. Small, cheap garage will charge £40-£50 per hour labour.

Rust is a major problem as our roads are gritted almost every winter and the salt grit rots the cars underneath. Welding is expensive due to the standard it has to attain.

Average rental for 2 bedroom tiny house unfurnished £650 + council tax, water rates, electric, TV licence. Allow £850 a month all in.

One bedroom flats about £550 furnished plus the other items. Council tax is dependent on the value of the house and is put into bands A, B, C, D, E. Higher the band higher the tax. Low band could be £1,250 per year. That's over £100 a month.

Best way to rent for a single person is a room in a shared house. All in would be about £375 per month approx.

All the above at August 2009

This is a very comprehensive and detailed breakdown of the kinds of costs one might encounter living day by day in this part of England. A lot of work went into this post, for which I am most grateful! Thank you very much!

excellent summary