Construction suffers winter blues

The UK economy's miserable winter continued after figures showed the construction sector endured its worst month since October 2009 in February.

Sharp falls in commercial building work and in civil engineering activity meant the latest Markit/CIPS purchasing managers' index (PMI) measuring overall output in the sector declined to 46.8 from 48.7. It means the headline index has been below the no-change in activity value of 50 for four months running.
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