Unemployment falls again
Date published: 17 October 2013
UNEMPLOYMENT dropped by 834 last month to 6,244 - the seventh successive month of falls.
The figure was almost 1,800 down on the same month in 2012.
There are now 3,910 men (5.6 per cent of the work-age population) and 2,334 women (3.3 per cent) claiming jobseeker’s allowance
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