The UK economy recovered in May with more holiday bookings and visits to doctors, data published by the Office for National Statistics showed Wednesday.
Gross domestic product grew 0.5 percent from April, when output was down by revised 0.2 percent. Economists had forecast GDP to remain flat after April's initially estimated 0.3 percent fall.
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