A MOTHER and daughter have become business partners and opened a hair salon.

Ann King, 47, and her daughter Joe, 25, have more than 40 years' experience between them which they have used to open The Cutting Room in Cleveland Street, Redcar.

Mrs King had the opportunity to open a salon 20 years ago but had to turn it down when she became pregnant.

Now she and her daughter, who both went into hairdressing when they were 15 years old, are delighted with the salon's initial success.

Joe said: "It is going brilliantly. We have had a really good response. My mum asked me if I would work for her and I wouldn't want to work for anyone else."