The Women's Institute look for some new twists on classic cakes, and the RNLI lifeboatmen would like the bakers to make a nutritious and satisfying savoury bake.

The final four bakers are challenged to provide 100 sweet and 100 savoury high quality pastries for hungry race-goers at Newmarket.

Mich and Peter test both baking and sales skills as the three remaining bakers are challenged to sell bread to business high-flyers at London's Leadenhall market.

The three remaining bakers head home for a couple of days to come up with an idea for their very own original baked creation.

The three final contestants have two days to create a glorious wedding cake for three expectant couples at Harewood house.

The competitive baking series returns, beginning in Yorkshire as a contemporary Yorkshire baker goes head to head with a 1940s vintage style cake maker and a Ukrainian bread specialist.

Northumberland and County Durham come under the spotlight as a builder turned baker enters the fray, battling against artisan bakers from Darlington and a father and son team serving Geordie classics.

Three bakeries from Derbyshire and Staffordshire come under the scrutiny. A pair of traditional pudding makers come up against a self-taught, husband and wife pie making team, and two self-sufficient Greek inspired bakers.

Three Scottish bakeries enter the baking arena, including a community bread bakery, an artisan bread makers from Edinburgh and a Perthshire-based Israeli baker who mills his own flour at a 400-year-old watermill.

The competitive baking series continues with the first regional final, featuring bakers from Scotland and the North East of England. All must create an afternoon tea to wow judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell and create a complicated layered hazelnut meringue gateau with hazelnut praline.

Featuring a former navy chef who hopes his rum babas will help him sail to victory, a self taught artisan baker who showcases fennel and spinach bread, and a cake specialist who battles with her puff pastry. Today's challenge is to create fudge frosted choux eclairs good enough to win a place in Friday's regional final.