Bank expected to hold rates at 0.5%

Policymakers gather for the first interest rates decision of the year this week amid mounting fears that Britain is heading for a triple dip recession.

Members of the Bank of England's nine-strong Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meet after a gloomy start to 2013 following figures suggesting the dominant services sector contracted in December for the first time in two years.
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