UK retail sales recovered at a faster than expected pace in January, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday.
Retail sales volume grew 1.9 percent month-on-month, in contrast to the revised 4 percent decline in December. This was also faster than the expected growth of 1.0 percent.
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