REDCAR teenager DEAN SWANN has been recruited to work and study by Thornaby-based language charity Everyday Language Solutions.

Mr Swann, who is in the second year of the Association of Accounts Technicians' three-year course, is a modern apprentice and attends day release tuition with the North-East Chamber of Commerce in Middlesbrough.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the charity's board GRAHAM STEPHENSON has been reappointed, and trustee DR NAZAR IMAM, who works as an anaesthetist at North Tees University Hospital, has taken up the newly-created post of vice-chairman.