Unemployment figure drops by 2,000

THE number of people signing on the Live Register fell by more than 2,000 in November the lowest in a year, figures released by the Central Statistics Office confirmed yesterday.

But the National Organisation for the Unemployed gave a cautious welcome to the drop as the Live Register is not the true record of the real number out of work.

The register, which showed that 164,541 people signed on at the end of November, also included more than 21,000 people entitled to work part-time.