The UK has avoided recession.
Emma Crosby, sitting in for Ian King, is joined by a leading economist as revised GDP figures show slight growth for the first quarter of the year.
Plus she’s talking to the boss of Nationwide as the building society warns that continued mortgage rate hikes are threatening a “significant drag” on the housing market, and she hears from the Icelandic company turning carbon dioxide into stone.
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