A 13-year-old boy had become one of the youngest workers to lose his job during the recession when he was officially made redundant from his paper round.

Kane Middleton received a formal letter from the company employing him, outlining his redundancy package of nought pounds and assuring him that opportunities for redeployment within the company had been fully assessed.

The schoolboy from Clophill, Bedford, was paid between £6 and £7 per week to deliver the local freesheet, the Mid Beds Times & Citizen. He began the paper round in August after turning 13.