🇬🇧 UK 11h ago · Graeme Culliford

Inside UK unemployment hotspot ravaged by crack dealers and crime where job centre ENCOURAGES locals to claim benefits

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Inside UK unemployment hotspot ravaged by crack dealers and crime where job centre ENCOURAGES locals to claim benefits
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WITH its steel foundries and ­shipbuilding, Middlesbrough was once a boom town dubbed the iron smelting ­centre of the world. Now the former industrial heartland in the North East — which boasted 100 per cent employment before its industries collapsed — is fast becoming the UK’s jobless capital. It is a place where honest work...

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