The creator of the UK’s largest commercial radio group has committed his company to offering hundreds of work attachments for youngsters wanting to break into the radio business.

Speaking at the Student Radio Conference in Leeds, Ashley Tabor said his company would offer 500 work experience placements each year.

Mr Tabor led the acquisition of GCap and Chrysalis and formed the Global Radio Group. The new company continues to make major structural changes to its stations. Many staff have been fired. Insiders say that Global’s stations badly need the extra bodies that free work attachments will bring, but that permanent, full-time work may be harder to find.

Ashley Tabor said he wanted Global to provide the opportunities that he had been given as a youngster.