POOLE: Unemployment has fallen slightly across Dorset.

There were 2,057 claiming jobseekers’ allowance in Bournemouth – a fall of 0.9 per cent year-on-year.

In Poole, there were 1,005 people out of work down 0.6 per cent on last year.

Christchurch had 258 people unemployed (down 0.4 per cent), East Dorset 322 (down 0.4 per cent), North Dorset 248 (down 0.5 per cent), Purbeck 234 (down 0.3 per cent), West Dorset 333 (down 0.4 per cent) and Weymouth and Portland 575 (down 0.8 per cent).