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A Liverpool businessman has helped get a homeless young man off the streets following an appeal on Twitter.

A social media appeal to help get Jordan Lockett, 20, off the streets and into employment went viral with offers of support from kind-hearted business owners.

On Tuesday, Twitter user @AaronTDCC - Runcorn student Aaron O’Dwyer - tweeted Jordan’s handwritten CV in which he pleaded for help.

The CV, written in black ink on a piece of lined paper, said: “I’m sick of wasting away now.”

It ended: “Very fast learner and hard worker. Can I afford not to be? Any chances?”

Aaron’s post has had 2,700 retweets and 1,000 ‘favourites’ while several stories written by the ECHO about Jordan’s plight were also shared thousands of times.

Liverpool business men and women contacted the ECHO to offer Jordan the chance of an interview - and the break he desperately wanted.

Since Tuesday, it has been difficult contacting phoneless Jordan who is known to beg around Bold Street and the surrounding area.

But tonight, the ECHO met with Jordan and a local businessman, who did not want to be named, who has found him a bed to sleep in for the first time in months.

He will spend the night at a city centre hotel before meeting with people who have come forward to offer job interviews.

The good Samaritan, who runs several city centre bars, said: “Me and my wife wanted to do something to help - he’s just a young lad.

“The fact his CVs were all handwritten really stood out to me - he’s taken a lot of time to try and change his situation.

“I’m hoping to talk to him tomorrow about working for me and see where we go from there.”