Jobless total falls to 8.2 per cent, down 0.2 per cent on quarter

The latest UK unemployment figures showed an unexpected fall in unemployment to 8.2 per cent  with the number of people out of work falling by 51,000. Read more...

UK unemployment shows a surprise fall in first quarter

The number of unemployed people in the UK was 2.63m in the three months to March 2012, down 45,000 from the three months to December 2011 but up 170,000 from a year earlier. Read more...