A CHINESE entrepreneur who created a storm by advertising her company on a missile launcher has entered the Dragons' Den.

Ling Valentine, who set up car website lingscars. com, will appear on the BBC2 television series tomorrow night.

Ms Valentine attracted wide publicity with her Chinese People's Liberation Army nuclear missile launcher, complete with rocket, parked by the A1(M) near Sedgefield, County Durham.

She moved the vehicle after she was threatened with legal action if it was not removed.

Ms Valentine, whose appearance on television will coincide with Valentine's Day, tells the Dragons: "I have been in the country for about eight years. I came with nothing apart from perfect Chinglish."

Ms Valentine, who runs her contract-hire car business from an office in Gateshead, said last night: "They approached me. They saw I had won the Entrepreneur of Year and they contacted me.

"They pestered me to go. In the end, they even filled in the application form for me and asked me to sign it.

"They filmed me for three-and-a-half hours. The Dragons are all very nice off camera. I was very relaxed, the BBC guys were very sweet to me. They even went to get me Chinese takeaway for lunch and brought me chopsticks.

"Some of the Dragons' questions were very tough. At times, it felt like I was being questioned by the Chinese secret police."