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SHEPHARD WELCOMES UNEMPLOYMENT NEWS
Education and Employment Secretary
Gillian Shephard has welcomed the fall
in the number of people out of work.
Mrs Shephard said that the UK's
unemployment rate was nearly two
percentage points below the European
average and there were more
opportunities than ever for the jobless
But Labour's spokeswoman Harriet Harman
said unemployment remained "a major
problem throughout the UK".
And John Edmonds from the GMB union
said the figures showed the recovery
had "just about stopped". See 114
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