DRAGONS' Den and Bolton and Bury Business Awards winner Imran Hakim got a taste of what it is like to be on the other side.

The Bolton businessman, who designed the hi-tech interactive teddy bear, the i-Teddy, was on the judging panel for business ideas from eight-year-olds in Oldham.

Imran, who won the Technology, Innovation and Design award at the business awards an said: "I was very pleased to sit on the panel as a dragon' and it was certainly preferable sitting on this side of the table! I was extremely impressed with the work the children put in to their presentations which covered all elements of their proposed business idea."