BRITAIN’S return to recession is a psychological blow to businesses and consumers but does not change the overall economic outlook, two local experts have said.

I am a Guernsey-born woman who has extensive management experience in the finance sector.

Times are financially difficult; things will get worse before they get better.  

RECOVERY from the recession and the global financial crisis in the UK has been more sluggish than it was after the Great Depression of the 1930s.

CONCERNS over whether the UK and Guernsey will experience a double-dip recession are relatively insignificant to the man in the street, according to a UK economist.

INDUSTRY data from the fourth quarter of 2011 has revealed that Britain may avoid a double-dip recession.

EUROPE should be bracing itself for a recession of 1930s proportions or at least a decade of sluggish or no economic growth.

A RESTAURANT could be opening in the Le Lievre’s building after planning permission was approved for a change of use.

MAJOR capital projects have been undertaken in Alderney in recent years – but there remains much to be done if the island is going to prosper.

GUERNSEY investors have been told that the macroeconomic environment is still uncertain but the corporate picture looks much brighter.