Carole Melia originally bought Hop Scotch Day Nursery, inAshton-under-Lyne, in 1996, after hearing it would be closed unless anew owner could be found.
Another provider took over the running of the nursery in 2000 but MsMelia kept the building.
Now she is set to re-open the 80-place setting in May after a 250,000 refurbishment and rename it the Little Red Nursery. The previousoperator ran into financial difficulty and closed the nursery lastSeptember.
Ms Melia opened her first nursery, a 58-place setting called OllierHouse, in Manchester, after being made redundant while on maternityleave. In 1997 she bought a local school, Grafton House Preparatory, inAshton-under-Lyne, so that she could provide her son with the constantmedical supervision he needed when he started school.
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