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UK unemployment at 17-year high
Business digest: Young people hardest hit with 18 per cent out of work
UK unemployment is at a 17-year high, according to new figures released by the Office of National Statistics today.
Not since 1994, under John Major's premiership, has the UK's jobless total reached 2.35 million, the official figure for UK unemployment in January 2011.
In the three months leading up to the end of January, 27,000 new people were registered as unemployed, taking the UK unemployment rate to 8 per cent.
Britain's youth appear to be hardest hit by the continuing economic hardship, with 18.3 per cent of those aged between 18 and 24 unemployed.
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