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As thousands of pupils are anxiously waiting for their GCSE results, what are the options after the age of 16 for students who don't want to stay in formal education until they are 18?

Are apprenticeships being promoted enough to school leavers?

Reporter Willy Gilder talks to Tina Prati from Tresham College, and to 17 year old James Mead from Thrapston who has been doing an apprenticeship in accountancy.

Stuart talks to John Bexson, the Deputy Principal at Northampton College, to Isaac Teckman, an apprentice at Northampton College, and to Steve Warren who runs a design and print company in the centre of Northampton and is about to take on his first apprentice.

Also:

* people have until tomorrow to comment on the planning application for the Brookfield Recovery Park near Corby

* supporters of the Glenfield children's heart centre which treats children from Northamptonshire say its future is brighter under a new review into NHS heart care

* the luxury car makers, Jaguar, say that a car plant will not be built in Corby, despite the town being on a list of possible locations for development

* plans to make changes in the contraception and sexual health services in Northamptonshire

* the headteacher of Duston School explains how her pupils have fared in their GCSE's

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