"It isn’t news to us."

That is the reaction of Kent business owners and workers to the news the county and the country are now officially in the grip of a recession.

Goverment figures out on Friday confirmed the economy shrank by 1.5 per cent in the final quarter of 2008.

We went out onto the streets of Strood to ask people how the current economic downturn is affecting them - watch the video at the top of this page.

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