• Unemployment rate down from 6.9% to 6.8%
• Unemployment January-March down 133,000 to 2.2 million
• Employment up 283,000 in quarter, biggest increase since records began in 1971
• Claimant count at lowest since November 2008
• Pay including bonuses for January-March 2014 was 1.7% higher than a year earlier, with pay excluding bonuses 1.3% higher
• 140,000 Romanians and Bulgarians were in work in the UK in the three months after lifting of controls, down 4,000 on Q4 but up 28,000 on a year before

And the sun is even shining…