Funeral of Stuart Baggs today

Fri, 21 Aug 2015

Stuarts Baggs

The funeral of local businessman Stuart Baggs will take place in Douglas this afternoon.

The 27-year-old, who found fame on the BBC One show The Apprentice, died as a result of his asthma on July 30th.

After his brush with Lord Alan Sugar, Stuart went on to develop his successful telecoms business BlueWave Communications.

In light of this people attending his funeral service at St Ninian's Church have been asked to wear blue.

Dan Murphy is from the charity Asthma UK - he says Stuart's death has shone a spotlight on the condition: