Britain's Best Bakery

The competitive baking series' second season begins in Yorkshire as a contemporary Yorkshire baker goes head-to-head with a 1940s vintage-style cakemaker 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 scrutiny; a pair of traditional puddingmakers comes up against a self-taught husband and wife piemaking team, and two self-sufficient Greek inspired bakers.

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

The series continues with the first regional final, featuring bakers from Scotland and North East England who must create an afternoon tea and a complicated layered hazelnut meringue gateau with hazelnut praline.

A former navy chef 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, must create fudge frosted choux eclairs.