Help the young.

MORE than 150 groups signed up today to a Government drive to help find jobs or training for young people.

Firms including the Royal Mail, Microsoft, Pfizer, Phones4U, Centrica and Morrisons will provide apprenticeships, work or training.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to detail plans to guarantee a job for anyone between 18 and 24 who has been out of work for 10 months.

The move follows calls from unions and business groups for ministers to do more to help jobless youngsters.

Figures have revealed the jobless rate among 16 to 24-year-olds has soared to almost 20%.

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