It's not easy being a role model, admits troubled Khan

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Only this week, the 21-year-old Olympic silver medallist was fined £1,000 and banned for six weeks for driving too fast.

That loss of his licence will run concurrently with a six-month disqualification Khan received last October for careless driving after he knocked down a pedestrian in June 2006.

But Khan's community spirit was due to be saluted today by Conservative leader David Cameron and other dignitaries in his home town.

Cameron was officially opening the £1million Gloves Gym, a Khan-inspired project in one of the most deprived areas of Bolton, into which he has sunk £700,000 of his own money.

Khan will not only train at Gloves - he next fights against Dane Martin Kristjansen at the ExCel Arena in London on 2 February - but insists he will spend time there encouraging youngsters to get themselves fit or do schoolwork in a special computer room.

"The pressure of being seen as a role model does get to me," he said. "I'm trying to handle it by doing things the way I've always done them. I'm still the same person I was before I became famous."

There is no mistaking the pride Khan takes in his new gym.

He added: "Our place is bang in the centre and I think that's great. I want to channel rough kids' aggression in my boxing gym."

Khan's other good works include travelling to Pakistan on behalf of Oxfam, supporting a raft of local youth initiatives in his home town and being an ambassador for the NSPCC.