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The unemployment rate rose to 4.8% in the three months to September, up from 4.5%, as coronavirus continued to hit the jobs market. Redundancies rose to a record high of 314,000 in the same period, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) informed. Firms made more workers redundant in anticipation of the end of the furlough scheme, which was originally supposed to finish at the end of October.
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