IT'S an odd reality TV topic to have taken such a tight hold on the nation, but Sir Alan Sugar's The Apprentice seems to have everybody hooked.

Here in York and Tadcaster, though, we have some real life would-be tycoons who are shaming the TV wannabes when it comes to enterprise.

Good luck to the teenagers who are battling it out tomorrow in the York Young Enterprise final, demonstrating how their own fledgling companies can create a product, then successfully promote and market it.

Updated: 10:54 Monday, May 01, 2006