THE extended bank holiday for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee kept the UK economy in its double-dip recession in the second quarter of the year, a leading think-tank said yesterday.
Gross domestic product is estimated to have declined 0.2% between April and June, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr), following declines of 0.3% and 0.4% in the previous two quarters.
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