Rebecca Jeffery will once again be fighting to become Lord Sugar's business partner in tonight's episode of The Apprentice.

Rebecca, who hails from Asby, near Lamplugh, is one of the 16 remaining candidates on the BBC show, which will be aired at 9pm.

This week's challenge, Corporate Candy, sees contestants designing and manufacturing a new brand of sweets before heading to Brighton to sell their sugary wares to the public.

Sure to be watching his daughter's progress, is Howard Bouch, of Seaton, who is bursting with pride at what the 31-year-old has achieved.

He said: "I'm immensely proud with Rebecca. I think she's doing brilliantly."

Last week saw the two teams create an advertising campaign for jeans made from Japanese denim which required them to come up with packaging, as well as a brand name, digital billboards and a TV advertisement.

Rebecca, who runs Fi and Becs Design & Marketing with her sister in Manchester, put herself forward to be the girl's project manager, but the reins were given to online fashion entrepreneur Jessica Cunningham instead.

It was suggested in the boardroom by Lord Sugar that Rebecca would have been a more suitable and successful project manager.

It was Natalie Hughes who was axed from the show.

Another Cumbrian, Oliver Nohl-Oser, of Milburn, near Penrith, also made it through to tonight's show.

The 33-year-old, who co-founded The Cumbrian Sausage Company, which has a factory in Maryport, now lives in Wiltshire.