PM promises help for over-25s

Gordon Brown announced the employment plans at Birmingham City FC

The Prime Minister says more effort is being made to help people find jobs. 16 to 24-year-olds are the main focus, with a million people unemployed. 150 companies are now signed up to provide thousands of jobs and training schemes. Gordon Brown's been answering your questions about the plans.

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Ashley in Milton Keynes has texted in to Radio 1 on 81199. He's spent nine months job hunting and still has friends having no luck finding work. What message can you give to people like that?

Andrew in Ashford, Mark in Northampton. They've both texted Newsbeat to say there are a lot of Polish workers, eastern European workers in our company and the country as a whole.

And Matthew in South Shields was one of many texters who wanted to know how you help people who are a bit older than this 18 and 24 age group. His wife is 27, recently made redundant.