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Jobs crisis 'hits young hardest'

Young people in the poorest, most deprived parts of the UK are being hardest hit by unemployment in the recession, official figures have revealed.

The Office for National Statistics' annual Social Trends survey suggests it is not bankers and estate agents who are suffering most, but a far more vulnerable group. The BBC's Home Editor Mark Easton reports.

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