BOLTON entrepreneurs Terry and Lyndsay Walker will be returning for a second series of Scrappers, the BBC has confirmed.

The husband and wife run Metro Salvage, Waterloo Street, the biggest scrap metal yard in the North West, and the first six-part series which was screened on BBC One last summer brought in ratings upwards of two million.

Production company, Liberty Bell, returned to Bolton as the business struggles to cope following financial troubles, with money having to be spent on new equipment and training after a visit from environmental health.

Mr and Mrs Walker, both aged 50, who have been married for 30 years and live in Radcliffe, are also planning to bring their daughter Cathy into the business and transform the yard into an operation that they would be happy to pass on to son, Jon.

Programme-makers spent five weeks filming from mid-November, arriving just as the couple had returned from a sunshine break.

The first series also featured the yard's staff including Debs Guffogg and sister Michelle Humphreys, from the onsite cafe, and teenager Lewis O’Boyle, who no longer works there.

It was commissioned by Tom McDonald, acting head of commissioning, science and natural history and is executive produced by Michele Carlisle and Jamie Isaacs.

Scrappers is expected to be screened on BBC Two later this year.