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Young are locked out of work

By Daniel Pimlott, Economics Reporter

Published: July 14 2009 20:56 | Last updated: July 14 2009 20:56

In the early 1980s, Corby became the grim face of Britain’s unemployment crisis after the decline of the steel industry that had long sustained it cost thousands their jobs.

Nearly 30 years later, history is repeating itself in the sprawling east Midlands industrial town.

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