DANIEL Stewart, 15, has been asked to swim at the Ideal Home Show.

Daniel, who lives in Burbage, and is a student at Pewsey Vale School, is a competition swimmer with the Marlborough Penguins.

But currently he is spending his weekends swimming not at his usual venue at the Marlborough Leisure Centre, but at the unlikely venue of the Ideal Home Exhibition at Earls Court in London.

He is demonstrating a home spa at the exhibition, a small pool fitted with powerful jets that allows swimmers to swim against a constant stream of water.

The Stewart family has one of the Canadian-built Hydropool Spa Aquatrainers at their home which Daniel uses for competition practice.

His sister Ginette, 13, who also swims for the Marlborough Penguins club also benefits from using the pool.

Their mum Jean, a swimming instructor, said the family became interested in the swimming spas because Daniel is a keen swimmer."

Initially the Toronto-based company asked Daniel to help them decide on how strong the water jets needed to be for him to swim against.

But the company soon realised that Daniel was no ordinary young swimmer and was particularly enthusiastic about his sport.

So it asked him to demonstrate their pools at the Ideal Home Show.

It felt that having a swimmer would make the pool the centre of attention.

The fibreglass pools that double as leisure spas so that families and friends can sit and socialise in warm water whatever the weather are just 17 feet long and four feet deep.

Daniel said the spa pool was beneficial because of its adjustable jets.

"You can adjust the speed of the water to your own ability," he said.

He said he has enjoyed demonstrating his swimming in the pool at the prestigious show in London.

But there have been other surprises which have followed his swims.

He found he was not the only swimmer enjoying the show, for among celebrities he met there was the former Olympic swimming ace, Sharron Davies, but she wasn't intending to take a dip.

The Ideal home Show runs until April 6.