A Keighley teenager took her plea for a job to the streets. Vicky Stuart donned a sandwich board and stood next to a busy main road.

Now her "gizza job" appeal has paid off and this week she began work with an insurance company.

Vicky, 18, moved with her family to Saltburn in the north east last year.

Apart from a spell on short-term working with the Benefits Office, she had been unable to find employment.

"I felt really frustrated," says Vicky, a former pupil of South Craven School.

"It was getting me down. Each day it was becoming more of a struggle to even get out of bed in the mornings."

Her mother Margaret suggested she could adopt the sandwich board idea after seeing an episode of the Kilroy programme, in which a guest had done the same thing and found employment as a result.

Vicky - who lived with her family at Clock View Street, Beechcliffe, before moving away last August - had left school with 11 GCSEs.

She worked for Link Telecom in Keighley as an admin assistant and then at Kwik Save for a spell before moving to Saltburn. "At first I didn't like the sandwich board idea - I didn't think anything would come from it," says Vicky. "The result is absolutely brilliant. I'm really happy."

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