A new contract for phone and online support at Citizens Advice will bring at least 80 jobs to North Somerset next April, according to the council.

Meanwhile, supermarket chain Morrisons says it'll hire more than seven thousand new staff next year, including three hundred at a new regional distribution centre in Bridgwater.

It comes on the day unemployment figures show a rise by 128-thousand between August and October.

2-point-64 million people are now unemployed, with a record number of young people out of work.