Dragon's Den star Duncan Bannatyne has said he can't wait to attend the world premier of a musical based on his life which is being held in the West.

The Scotsman has won over the people of Shepton Mallet, in Somerset, after snapping up the four-star, Grade II-listed Charlton House from administrators earlier this year, saving 62 jobs in the area.

The play will premiere in November at The Academy Theatre in Shepton Mallet. It will depict his affair, divorce and rise from ice cream seller to multi-millionaire entrepreneur.

The two-hour unauthorised account by director Gordon McDougall is based on the 61-year-old's autobiography, Anyone Can Do it.

It will see Bannatyne's character sing of the trials in his life, including his court martial for trying to throw a Navy officer overboard.

Mr Bannatyne told the Western Daily Press: "As soon as tickets are released, I'll be booking my seat for the first night."

Mr McDougall said: "I hope he thinks it's a good idea. He's been quite open about his life, so I don't see a need to hide anything.

"He's a significant figure in the area, hopefully he'll come to see it."

Born in 1949 in the town of Clydebank, Duncan was raised in relatively modest circumstances.

He was told by his mother that she could not afford to buy him a bicycle, so Mr Bannatyneasked the local newsagents if he could start a paper round.

Told he would need a list of 100 potential customers, he painstakingly knocked on many doors and eventually drew up a list of 100 names and addresses, and subsequently landed the job and bought a bike.

In 1964, at the age of 15, Mr Bannatyne volunteered for 12 years with the Royal Navy as a junior 2nd class engineering mechanic stoker.

He served in the Navy for several years before receiving a dishonourable discharge for threatening to throw an officer off a boat landing jetty in Scotland.

He had to serve nine months in the tough Colchester military detention centre before being discharged, aged 20.

In his 20s, Mr Bannatyne moved to Jersey, where he met his first wife, and then to Stockton-on-Tees in the North East.

It was there that Mr Bannatyne's business career began, with an ice-cream van bought for £450. He soon expanded by buying more vans and eventually sold the business for £28,000, founding a care home business instead.

Quality Care Homes was sold for £26 million in 1996, and another business, children's nursery chain Just Learning, for £22m.

Mr Bannatyne has since branched into health clubs, with the popular Bannatyne's Health Clubs chain to his name, and also bars, hotels and property.