Unemployment Falls In The North East
Unemployment continues to fall in the North East.
New figures show unemployment in the North East has fallen by 1.4%.
That means 19,000 fewer people are out of work in our region.
We are still the worst in the country with 7.7% of the North East out of work, that is the lowest it has been since 2008.
The figures relate to between November 2014 and January 2015.