Coiled spring : The UK s economic surge has taken the world by surprise watoday.com.au - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from watoday.com.au Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Britain’s economic resurgence has caught the whole world by surprise
The numbers all point to blistering growth as the hit from Brexit continues to diminish each month
Two cheers for the British Wirtschaftswunder. It may not be an economic miracle, but the accelerating recovery now under way is a breathtaking turn of fortunes for the much denigrated Brexit economy.
The UK will probably regain pre-Covid levels of output before the eurozone, perhaps by Christmas. By the end of next year it may even have recouped the entire cross-Channel gap in growth since the referendum.
Philip Shaw from Investec has pencilled in blistering growth of 7.3pc this year, but says it could be over 8pc. “We’re trying not to sound outrageous but that is what the numbers are telling us,” he said. The firm has the eurozone pegged at 4.4pc.
North Sea whale death raises by-catch safety fears
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image captionHumpy the humpback whale washed up dead on the beach at Blyth
The recent death of a humpback whale off the Northumberland coast has raised interest in and concerns for the marine mammals in the North Sea. With the number of whale sightings in the area growing, what can be done to protect them?
It was alive at the end of January when it was spotted off the coast from the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, feeding on shoals of fish.
But several weeks later it was dead, its bloated carcass floating wrapped in the rope from a lobster pot.
No EU fishing boats inspected in British waters since Brexit despite £2m being spent on patrols telegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
LARGE sections of Britain s fishing industry are facing imminent disaster as a direct result of the trade deal signed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, an industry chief has warned.