It's the first day of the final week and the six remaining bakeries are back to battle it out for the title of Britain's Best Bakery.

The four remaining bakeries return to do battle once more, challenged to supply high-quality items to spectators at Newmarket racecourse. They hope to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell, who will decide which contenders have done enough to secure a place in the final three, and who will be sent home.

Judges Peter and Mich have chosen their top 3 bakeries. Today the 3 finalists will compete in bread special.

Peter Sidwell and Mich Turner send the three finalists back to their bakeries, where they are challenged to come up with an entirely new item that the judges hope could become synonymous with each of their home towns.

The best three bakeries of the competition battle it out in the grand final. With just two days to prepare, they must each design and cook a glorious wedding cake for three couples, and be sure to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell, who will choose the winner of the ultimate baking trophy.

Independent bakeries compete to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell, beginning in Yorkshire where a contemporary baker goes head to head with a vintage-style cake maker and a Ukrainian bread specialist. Each business is challenged to come up with an original bake using polenta, and produce rhubarb and custard muffins that are good enough to see them through to the regional final.

Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell visit three bakeries in Northumberland and Co Durham. A Consett-based builder-turned-baker battles against professionals from Darlington and a father-and-son team creating local classics, but the task of rolling up a lemon roulade with home-made lemon curd puts pressure on the contestants.

Three bakeries from Derbyshire and Staffordshire come under the scrutiny of judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell. A pair of traditional pudding-makers come up against a husband and wife team who are self-taught pie specialists, and two self-sufficient Greek-inspired bakers. They are challenged to create a perfect Bakewell tart - but can they get them ready on time?

In Scotland, a community bakery goes up against artisan bread-makers in Edinburgh and an Israeli cook in Perthshire who grinds his own flour at a 400-year-old watermill. They must create an original product combining chilli and puff pastry, along with perfecting their brandy snap recipes in the hope of impressing judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell.

The week's winners go head to head in the Scottish and north-east of England regional final. Temperatures rise as the four bakeries do battle in the kitchen, with Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell scrutinising their every move. The aim is to create an afternoon tea to impress the judges, including a complicated layered hazelnut meringue gateau with hazelnut praline.

Three Devon-based bakeries try to impress judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell as they compete for a place in the regional final. A former Navy chef presents rum babas, a self-taught artisan baker rustles up some fennel and spinach bread, and a cake specialist prepares puff pastry, before all are challenged to create fudge-frosted choux eclairs.