Unemployment has remained at 4.3 per cent, the lowest rate since 1975, official figures show.
The figures, released by the Office for National Statistics, also show that employment remains at a near record high, with 32 million people in work.
Increases in full-time and permanent work are behind the figures. In the last year the number of people on zero hours contracts has fallen by 20,000.

Lancashire County Council and the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership have written to the government to encourage further development of advanced manufacturing.

Plans for 44,000 new jobs and 33,500 new homes in Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire have moved a step forward.

A new partnership aimed at providing better and more consistent support services for homeless people in Bristol has launched.

Plans by Liverpool Mutual Homes (LMH) to build 150 affordable homes on Edge Lane have been given the go ahead.

Research has shown that over 3,000 disabled people in England under the age of 65 are living in care homes for older people.
The MS Society claims that, across the country, almost one in seven younger adults in residential care could be living in homes that were never designed for them.

Oxford City Council has announced that it will partner the Jamie Oliver Foundation and Good Food Oxford to become more Sugar Smart.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, have urged the Chancellor to end the police funding crisis.

Councillors in Hertfordshire have given the green light to the new priorities for the region’s libraries for 2018 - 2021.