London World Skills 2011: The vocational ‘Olympics’

London is hosting the biannual World Skills, external event, a competition where international teams compete in vocational skills including everything from plumbing to floristry.

BBC News caught up with two competitors from Team UK on the penultimate day of the contest, to find out what it was like to take part.

Puja Varsani is competing in the field of mobile robotics, and studies at Middlesex University, whilst Philip Green from Belfast Metropolitan College, is competing in the bricklaying category.