Fired 'Apprentice' fighting knife crime

Fired Apprentice candidate Majid Nagra has revealed that he is campaigning against knife crime with a theatre company.

The 28-year-old business development manager said that he wanted to inspire school children and offer them a chance to "change their lives".

"Me and my friends from school have set up a theatre company called One Life," Nagra told DS.

"We go around schools doing plays on knife crime and workshops. We all came from the rough area of Coventry, we didn't go to the best schools and we came up with the idea of educating youngsters on how we succeeded."

He continued: "We wanted to let them know that there is another way out. Knife crime is so rife in the UK right now it's unreal.

"We are hopefully doing something that gets youngsters off the street and change their lives. We want them to realise there's so much they can do if they put their minds to it."

Nagra became the third Apprentice candidate to be fired by Sir Alan Sugar yesterday.