THE Scottish economy contracted by 0.1% in the fourth quarter of last year, but fared better than the UK as a whole, as the services sector north of the Border achieved modest growth.
Scotland's slight outperformance of the UK as a whole, which suffered a 0.3% drop in gross domestic product (GDP) in the final three months of last year, was revealed in data published yesterday by the Scottish Government.
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