A DENBIGHSHIRE business owner has spoken of the 'fantastic experience' of appearing on Carol Vorderman's new series on BBC One Wales.

The former Countdown presenter's new show; Carol Vorderman: Closer To Home, first aired on January 5 and sees her take a trip down memory lane as she returns to her North Wales roots..

That episode featured Denbigh shepherdess Ffion Hooson, who spoke of what it was like to run a 180-acre farm at the age of just 21.

Since then, another familiar face to Denbigh residents; Mark Williams, has also appeared on the series.

Former paralympian swimmer Mark, who is from Rhyl, runs the LIMB-art business based at Nant-y-Lladron in Denbigh.

LIMB-art designs and manufactures prosthetic leg covers and it's a business which is expanding rapidly with an increasing number of international customers.

It was a company started by Mark who has had to overcome his own body image issues, having lost his leg in a road traffic accident when cycling home from school in Rhyl when he was just 10 years old.

Mark says that, having taken part in interviews on BBC news in the past, he was approached by the production team to appear on Carol Vorderman's new show.

Speaking about that, he said: "It was a fantastic experience and great to see the technology and production that goes on behind the scenes. It was a full days filming jut to produce 10mins of coverage!

"I had done some work previously mainly for news footage but also for Heno on S4C and I once appeared on 'Who Dares Wins' Quiz show with Nick Knowles."

On meeting Carol Vorderman and filming alongside her, Mark, a Paralympic Games bronze and silver medalist at Seoul 1988, said: "She was a truly lovely Lady but always on the go and always driven for the next thing."

LIMB-art was founded by Mark in 2018 and by now has customers in Australia, Singapore, Canada and the Canary Islands among many other places overseas.

Commenting on how hard 2020 has been for business, Mark added: "2020 was a really challenging year as part of our business comes through the NHS limb centres who offer our covers to patients.

The centres all closed during the first lockdown, but fortunately after they re-opened in July, our business picked back up and continues to grow.

"We are focussing now on our export markets and already have exclusive distributor agreements in place for several countries from Denmark to Australia.

"We have been amazed at the reaction our leg covers, what started out as a idea to solve my own body image issues now helps amputees across the world."