Has a bad year for Britain’s manufacturers come to an end? It seems that way from the latest industry survey. Output expanded in September at the same rate seen this time last year and the sector has started adding jobs. This follows a slump between January and August when firms were shedding jobs at an alarming rate, especially for an industry that has yet to recover the levels of output it enjoyed before the 2008 banking crash. A closer look at the Markit/Cips index of activity shows that most subsectors expanded after a broad-based jump in domestic demand. And exports rose on the back of the recent 10% fall in the ... (full story)