THE borough's jobless figures for last month showed a sharp upsurge.
Unadjusted claimant count for January totalled 2,190 which represented an increase of 252 over the previous month.
The latest statistics comprise 1,655 males and 535 females.
Consequently, the unemployment rate has also gone up from 2.6 per cent to the new figure of three per cent.
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