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Dragons Den investor Theo Paphitis has given ice skating coach Karen Coombes the £100,000 backing that she pitched for in the BBC programme Dragons Den. Following notification from the council that the Sobell Centre in Holloway was to be demolished Karen used her passion for ice skating in a bid to keep an ice skating presence in the London boroguh.

Karen and her best friend, also called Karen (O’Neill) presented their “ice blade” concept skates to the Dragons after spotting an opportunity for adpating inline roller skates to behave like ice skates but be used without the need for ice!

This huge investment will now make it possible for Karen and Karen to develop their iceblading empire and we wish them every luck in the world!

As soon as they are available we’ll do our best to make them available in our ice skate store!

**UPDATE – http://www.iceskates.org.uk/news/fancy-ice-skating-without-an-ice-rink**