By Paula Dear
BBC News
With the rate of redundancies rising and the number of job vacancies shrinking, unemployment is back in the headlines. But for millions it never went away. As part of a series on Britain’s jobless, one man whose career was shattered by illness explains how and why lack of work has touched his life.
For Richard Bassil, 46, work was not just work, it was his life.
But for the past seven years he has existed without it. Now he feels he has a “mountain to climb” to ever return to where he was.
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