Two Bradford University students used to living on a diet of fast food and kebabs are on their way to becoming culinary connoisseurs - thanks to Bradford's first Food and Drink Festival.

Nick Johns, 20, and Daniel Hedges, 21, who are both students at Bradford University's prestigious Cybernetics and Virtual World department, were picked to set up the festival's website after doing a work placement at the company organising it.

Nick said: "We know absolutely nothing about food apart from we like eating it!

"We're typical students really, we eat a lot of kebabs and junk food. And we usually eat that sat in front of the computer screen - which isn't too healthy.

"Fortunately they provided us with all the information about the food and we stuck to what we're good at - all the technical stuff. We organised it on the Internet and made it look good.

"We've been doing the website in our spare time and weekends, fitting it in with our university work.''

Nick said that the pair had now set up a company called Penguin Network Solutions to offer their services to other companies needing sites setting up.

And the enterprising duo are not the only ones at their university department with big plans.

Department head Dr John Baruch recently said that he expected ten to 20 of his 100 undergraduates to be millionaires in five years time because of their ground-breaking ideas. Cybernetics students at the university are taught not only how to revolutionise the electronic world but how to use business skills to make a mint out of their own work.

Food festival organiser Simon Dunn, said: "We have had a difficult time finding a company who could design a website for the festival before we were approached by Nick and Dan.

"We are very pleased with the finished result and hope that they have found the experience useful for their future careers."

The festival starts on September 8, with a charity gourmet dinner at City Hall.