MORE than 90% of Yorkshire business leaders are no more confident than they were 12 months ago about the state of the UK economy.

The view is compounded further looking ahead to 2012, with the majority (47%) expecting conditions to get worse and 44% expecting things to stay the same.

Just 9% are expecting to see an upturn in the economy, down from the 28% of Yorkshire respondents who took part in TheBusinessDesk.com's State of the Region survey last year.

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