CBI expects the Budget on 20 March to be fiscally neutral and the economy to grow at a rate of 0.3 percent in first-quarter of 2013.

BCC expects medium-term improvement, reaching 2.2 percent in 2015.

MPC leaves key rate unchanged and holds fire on QE printing presses in January.

Factoring in inflation, weak sales add to economic contraction worries.

Lord Green tells IBTimes UK reaching the £1tn export value target will not be easy "but it is a marathon we can complete".

ONS figures show industrial production falling with other data pointing to a renewed decline.

Banks encouraged to boost lending but is this wise as outlook for UK economy worsens?

Cost-cutting and abandoned investment rather than output producing profits, says ONS, threatening future tax revenues on corporate profits

PMI survey for service sector reveals slowdown in activity and adds to evidence UK economy barely recovered from recession in third quarter

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg say more austerity to meet debt target threatens UK's recovery from recession

British Chambers of Commerce business survey shows falling confidence, investment and new hires as damp domestic demand hinders economy

Move designed to help SMEs unable to secure credit from existing lenders.

Prime Minister David Cameron announces reforms around planning laws to stimulate house-building.

Britain's ailing construction sector, which a triggered double-dip recession, returned to contraction in August according to purchasing managers index data from Markit

British Chambers of Commerce slashes 2012 growth forecast for UK economy to -0.4% and tells government fiscal push in infrastrutructure is crucial.

Campaign group aims to send over 100,000 emails over summer to MPs seeking their support to reduce APD.

The industry body demands bold government action, including the creation of a business bank, to boost economic growth.

Trade body says recession unlikely, but growth to remain weak

Despite all the messages of doom and gloom the British Chambers of Commerce reckons the UK won't slide back into recession this year.

UK's five biggest banks miss lending targets for smaller businesses, says Bank of England.

Chambers of Commerce survey of UK business shows risk of stagnant economy but no definite recession.

Employees on long-term sick leave have to be assessed by independent doctors on their fitness to work instead of general practitioners, according to a new government proposal.

The Government Equalities Office on Wednesday said it is committed to develop a fairer and more flexible labor market that draws on the talents of all to build a stronger economy as part of the country's growth agenda.

Hitting back at the Government's call for firms to take on fewer migrant workers, British bosses today said they would rather employ immigrants than UK workers because they and have a bad attitude for the jobs on offer.

British economic growth is likely to be less impressive than previously thought, according to the British Chambers of Commerce, who today published their revised growth projections for this year and the next.

Despite concerns that the government is cutting "too far, too fast" figures released today revealed that government borrowing in April was on the up, as was overall public spending.

David Frost, the Director General of the British Chambers of Commerce, has said that he will quit his role at the organisation in 2011, after eight years in his current position.

The Coalition government's Comprehensive Spending Review, announced yesterday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, has drawn a mixed reaction from business, unions and economists.

Shares in British banks were up on the FTSE 100 in morning trading, following the Comprehensive Spending Review outlined yesterday by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.

The British Chambers of Commerce have called new plans from the European Parliament to extend maternity leave from six to 20 weeks "unaffordable".