Several areas across the UK are seeing unemployment rates soar despite official figures showing the national average falling. The rate of unemployment fell to 4.2 per cent in the three months to June, from 4.4 per cent in the previous three months according to the Office for National Statistics. But across the UK, six areas displayed higher-than-average unemployment rates as workers struggle to find work. Unemployment refers to people without a job who are actively seeking work but does not reflect the proportion of the total population who are unemployed. It is the proportion of the economica…