UK house prices rise; pound hits six-month high against euro – business live
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11.04am GMT
House prices may be holding up in the face of economic uncertainty, but the same isn’t true of car production.
The number of new vehicles built in the UK fell by over 5,600 last month compared to October 2018, at 134,750. That’s a 4% decline.
In 2016, the UK motor industry hoped to be producing 2m vehicles in 2020…
…now it hopes to avoid production falling to 1m pic.twitter.com/OwDt73oNaN
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Here’s our news story on the pick-up in UK house prices:
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