Contacts added to iPhone 5 not syncing

I have my Macbook Pro and iPhone 5 connected to iCloud.
Contacts are set to sync on both phone and mac but when I add a new contact to the phone it doesn’t show on the mac.
Adding contacts to the mac syncs with the phone, no problem.
This is driving me mad, please could someone help?

Thanks for the suggestion, which I ‘ve tried to no avail. I’ve also been through all the troubleshooting steps in the Apple guide.
I’ve done some more experimenting and I now think iCloud is the issue.
If I add contacts to iCloud they appear on both the phone and mac but not the other way round. Everything else (Calendar, Reminders etc.) syncs fine.
I noticed that in Notifications on the iCloud web site; mail, calendar, reminders and find my mac are all ticked but contacts doesn’t appear at all. Could this be significant?
Can anyone help?
(PS my earlier comment that contacts added to the mac appear on the phone was wrong)

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