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The number of UK workers on payrolls increased by 83,000 last month despite ongoing national lockdown restrictions.

The UK's inflation rate surged to 0.6% in December from 0.3% in November despite high street closures.

The rate of Consumer Price Index inflation fell to 0.3% in November from 0.7% in October, the Office for National Statistics said.

The UK economy grew by a record 15.5% in between July and September as the country emerged from lockdown.

The UK's inflation rate fell in August after Brits took advantage of 100million discounted meals through Eat Out to Help Out.

The UK's inflation rate rose to 1% in July as lockdown measures in the UK eased further.

The Sun, the Office for National Statistics will confirm the decline which is said to be the worst in Western Europe. The announcement will come as it was reported 730,000 jobs have been lost.British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has warned of "bumpy months ahead" after urging people to go back to work.

Dive right in! Like the weather, the Daily Star's FREE newsletter is a scorcherBritain has plunged into recession after the coronavirus crisis saw the economy contract by a record amount.The economy shrank by 20.4% between April and June, the Office for National Statistics has said.It was the largest contraction reported by any major economy so far, official figures showed on Wednesday.The data also showed the world's sixth-biggest economy entered a recession as it shrank for a second quarter in a row.There were signs of a recovery in the month of June alone when gross domestic product grew by 8.7% from May."The recession brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has led to the biggest fall in quarterly GDP on record," Jonathan Athow of the

A total of 730,000 UK workers have been removed from the payrolls of British companies since March when the coronavirus lockdown began.

The UK economy grew by 1.8% in May as activity began to recover as the coronavirus lockdown eased, the Office for National Statistics has said.

The UK economy shrank by 2% in the first quarter of 2020 as the coronavirus crisis saw activity contract at a record pace in March, official figures have shown.

The number of UK workers on payrolls fell by more than 600,000 between March and May as lockdown hit Britain's labour market, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The UK's GDP plummeted by 20.4% in the first full month of lockdown, the biggest monthly fall on record.

UK unemployment increased by 50,000 to 1.35million in the three months to March, latest Government figures show.