Britain avoided falling back into recession after its economy grew by a better-than-expected 0.3 percent in the first quarter compared with the final three months of 2012, official data showed on Thursday.
Gross domestic product (GDP) "increased by 0.3 percent in Q1 2013 compared with Q4 2012" when the British economy had contracted, the Office for National Statistics said in a preliminary estimate.
The technical definition of recession is two quarters running of contracting economic activity.
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