Productivity growth at six-year high - ONS

There has been a sharp rise in UK productivity - long blamed for holding back the country's economic growth.According to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), growth in labour productivity hit a six-year high in the third quarter of last year - rising 0.9% following falls over the first six months.The ONS tempered the improvement by saying that productivity growth remains at its lowest levels since the 1820s on a rolling 10-year basis.