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A street artist who appeared on the BBC Dragons’ Den came away with an offer of both professional advice – and a job.

Nathan Murdoch, 38, runs Street Arts Hire and has painted several murals in Peterborough, including tributes to Prodigy singer Keith Flint, and a Jude Bellingham portrait during the football World Cup.

He said he went on the show looking for further investment in his arts business, but all the Dragons agreed instead that he needed sound advice in order to expand.

Entrepreneur Steven Bartlett was so taken with Murdoch’s work he offered the artist both one-to-one advice and a job painting the walls of his new London offices.

Murdoch appeared before the entrepreneurs accompanied by a large painting of a dragon – which he had created for the show.

He was asking for a £60,000 investment in return for a 10% share in his company.

The money, he said, would help employ a full-time role co-ordinating the work he and other artists were commissioned to do, as he said they could only currently fill about 60% of requests.