Two entrepreneurs from Cumbria have survived week one of The Apprentice.

Both Rebecca Jeffery, of Asby, near Lamplugh, and Oliver Nohl-Oser, from Milburn, near Penrith, managed to make it through the BBC show's second week.

The opening week's task focussed on selling vintage items and antiques at a market stall and to traders.

It was a close call though for 31-year-old Rebecca who was called back into the boardroom as one of the three candidates facing the boot.

Oliver, 33, who now lives in Wiltshire, came out on the winning side - the boys' Team Titans.

They managed to make £1,428.10 on the task compared to the girls' Team Nebula's total of £959.

In the boardroom Rebecca faced an intense grilling and was the first to be scrutinised by her colleagues.

In a final plea to Lord Sugar she said: "I'm brilliant to work with and I can lead a team. I'm definitely not ready to go."

After breathing a sigh of relief when Lord Sugar issued his famous "you're fired" line to the Team Nebular project manager Michelle Niziol, the show's leader told Rebecca: "You're floating as deadwood does but it's a very early stage in the process and I'll let you stay."

Oliver runs two award-winning companies, The Cumbrian Sausage Co. Ltd. and James Alexander Fine Foods. On the show he was described as the "sausage supremo".

Rebecca and her sister started their business, Fi & Becs Design & Marketing, nearly three years ago. It has grown quickly and now has more than 120 clients all over the UK, Ireland, China, Germany, Canada and the USA.

Speaking after the show Michelle said has "no regrets" over the decisions she made as project manager.

The property business owner was fired by Lord Sugar due to an apparent lack of pricing strategy in the selling task.

The 18 new hopefuls were challenged by Lord Sugar and his aides Karren Brady and Claude Littner to shift collectable antique items, and were advised to pick the "diamonds from pieces of old toot" to maximise sales.

In the boardroom, Lord Sugar told the losing team: "It appears to me that I was talking to a brick wall.

"I thought I made it perfectly clear. The important thing about this is to identify what you have there and to establish some kind of pricing policy, in order to know what you can go and sell it for.

"According to Claude, you just made it up as you went along."

Michelle confessed to being "absolutely shocked" to be the first person to leave after facing the boardroom with Alana Spencer and Rebecca, who only made £25 during the task.

Niziol, who owns three businesses, said: "Even in the boardroom I thought Rebecca was going home. I just felt I was a better candidate than her."

Lord Sugar appeared undecided over who to get rid of first, saying that Jeffery had "demonstrated nothing in this particular task" and that Spencer "overlooked" the pricing.

He concluded that it was "very easy" for him to point the finger at Niziol as project manager, and that she was responsible for "a lot of stuff" before firing her.