Inflation on the Island increased in December by point 4%.
This took the rate at the end of the year to 3.1%.
On average , over the full year, excluding housing, the rate was 2%.
Over the year, to mid December the only category to record a fall was motoring, which went down by 1.7%.
At the same time, unemployment ended the year at 1.4%, or 577 of the economically active population. And that meant a fall in unemployment for the first time since millenium year.
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