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Updated on 04 June 2009

By Faisal Islam

The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold for another month amid signs of improvement in the British economy. Our economics correspondent Faisal Islam reports.

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Halifax house prices index showed a surprise 2.6 per cent increase over the previous month.

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