UK economy slows to 0.2% growth

26 July 2011 Last updated at 04:35 ET

Growth in the UK economy slowed in the three months to 30 June, partly because of the extra bank holiday in April.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 0.2% in the second quarter, according to the Office for National Statistics.

It grew by 0.5% in the previous three months, but contracted by 0.5% in the last three months of 2010.

The ONS said that growth had been slowed by some one-off factors such as warm weather and the effects of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

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