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RE: [A-List] New economy bull: cooking the books
> -----Original Message-----
> From: a-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:a-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Keaney
> Sent: 29 October 2002 14:08
>
> REAL unemployment in Scotland is running at 360,000, or 13%, compared with
> the official rate of just 115,000, according to a report released today.
>
> Glasgow has the highest rate, at 22%, it claims, followed by West
> Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire and Clackmannanshire, all at 19%.
I was recently in Lanarkshire and a more depressing place would be hard to
find unless elsewhere in the Celtic Fringe (the Rhondda for eg). But these
dour, depressing kirk-ridden villages, where the victorian extractive and
metal-bashing industrial heartland became modern social graveyards, will
never come back to life, will they?
Mark
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