Life after Junior Apprentice for Ribble Valley teenager (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Life after Junior Apprentice for Ribble Valley teenager

5:40pm Tuesday 7th September 2010

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By Nazia Parveen »

RIBBLE Valley teenager Tim Ankers has spoken for the first time about life after BBC’s Junior Apprentice hit TV show.

The 18-year-old was beaten at the final hurdle in his bid to become Alan Sugar’s apprentice by maths wizard Arjun Rajyagor, in June.

But the Clitheroe Royal Grammar School student, who recently got four As in his A-levels, is celebrating after securing a much-sought-after one-year placement at accountancy group KPMG.

Tim, who will be heading to London in October, lives with his parents and two brothers in Slaidburn.

After finishing the placement in the advisory practice of the global firm, he is hoping to secure a place at Oxford studying politics, philosophy and economics.

He said: “The show hasn’t really changed anything for me. I have kept pretty grounded.

"I have been concentrating on my exams and I still help out at a local farm, just like I have been doing for the last seven years.

“I am really looking forward to the placement at KPMG.

"They offer brilliant training and I would love to work for them in their risk and compliance department.”

The young entrepreneur, who is hoping to become his own boss one day, added: “I haven’t chosen what type of business I’d like to run yet because it will be good to gain some experience and find an area I am interested in.”

Tim set up his first business at the age of 11, selling eggs to neighbours, and revealed that he shears sheep for a pound at the farm of a family friend to make extra money.

He was one of 10 teenagers bidding for the £25,000 prize on Lord Sugar’s new BBC1 show.

This weekend he will be putting in an appearance at the annual Hodder Valley Agricultural and Horticultural Show, in Newton-in-Bowland, where he will be manning a stall for Bowland Stoves, which recently opened a new showroom in Poorsland Barn, Slaidburn.