WHAT started as an idea with a work colleague has seen two catering workers leave their jobs to launch a mobile cocktail bar business after transforming a disused horsebox.

Nicole Fielding and business partner James Blakeley have combined their food and drink experience to launch Blakefields, offering a full catering and bar service.

Ms Fielding, from Tadcaster Road, said: “James and I came up with an idea – let’s buy an old horsebox and convert it into a cocktail bar.

“We did just about everything ourselves. It looks absolutely brilliant and we’re really pleased with it.

“We can do any sort of outside catering but the horsebox, which we have called Blakefield Botanical Bar, is the centrepiece of the business.”