How once-thriving town became UK’s unemployment capital as jobless benefits claimants proudly brag ‘working is for mugs’

How once-thriving town became UK’s unemployment capital as jobless benefits claimants proudly brag ‘working is for mugs’

WHEN Sandra Craggs left school aged 16, there was no shortage of jobs on offer. Such was the range of opportunities in Ebbw Vale 60 years ago, if she wasn’t happy in her place of work, she could - and often did - quit on a Friday and walk into new employment the following Monday....

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