UK expands 0.5% in fourth quarter and you can sense BBC News's gritted teeth

This BBC report http://www.bbc.com/news/business-35427222 gives one the impression that the BBC news team are unhappy reporting some more good economic news.

This passage especially has more than a whiff of being written through gritted teeth:

'The annual pace of growth maybe the slowest for three years but still puts the UK economy among the fastest growing among the developed nations.'

Poor BBC, reporting the truth hurts.