It has been some week for the economy. The FSTE 100 has hit historic highs, UK industry has been described as "booming back to life" and a string of Britain's biggest shops have revealed that they enjoyed huge success over Christmas.

In all, it's not quite the economic collapse of which we were so fearfully warned ahead of the EU referendum.

It's a little more complicated than that, of course, but here are five encouraging signs from the last week that show how Britain's economy is thriving.

1. Industry 'booms back to life' as manufacturing drives growth

The strong pace of growth enjoyed in the aftermath of the vote to leave the European Union looks set to be maintained thanks to the UK industry "booming back to life" towards the end of 2016.