Construction output slides for fourth month running

Construction output has fallen for four months running as a deepening house building slump keeps the industry stuck in reverse.
Output dropped 0.2% in August, while sharp downward revisions wiped out the brief recovery previously reported for July.
July’s initial 0.1% rise has been revised to a 0.5% fall, with June’s decline also deepened from 0.1% to 0.3%.The figures leave construction trailing the wider UK economy, which edged up 0.1% in August.
Over the three months to August, con