Confounding some of the dire economic predictions,Britain's manufacturing sector has registered growth for the first time in three months.
CIPS Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a measure of activity in the manufacturing sector, rose to 51.1 in September despite analysts predicting the lowest figure in two years.
It may be a small crumb of comfort for the government and may persuade the Bank of England to wait a little longer before approving a second dose of quantitative easing.
However before we all get too excited, over the third quarter as a whole, the PMI averaged 50.0, down from 52.7 in the second quarter and 59.4 in the first.
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