Cooks hunt spot on shelves of M&S

As part of a new television series due to be shown next year they were looking in an event hosted by Carol Vorderman for favourite dishes created by unsung culinary talent.

With some of the country’s best fruit and vegetables on show it was an ideal venue.

The eventual winner will earn its place on the shelves of Marks and Spencer.

“I’ve long said that Great Britain has some of the four best home cooked recipes in the world,” said Vorderman, “be it cream teas in Cornwall or parkin from Yorkshire.”

The three-day event at the Great Yorkshire Showground attracts over 35,000 visitors and is seen as the premier autumn show.

The show has already seen a new world record set for a giant onion, with a specimen presented by 68-year-old Peter Glazebrook, from Newark.

Several societies hold their own show at Harrogate and Chris Woolston from Oakham, Rutland picked up the top award in the British Fuchsia Society Show.

The Pelargonium and Geranium Society champion was Richard Hainsworth while the British Gladiolus Society grand champion was Nigel Coe from Ashbourne in Derbyshire.

Ivor Mace had a succesful trip from Wales, picking up the British National Carnation Society’s top award while the individual vase champion at the National Chrysanthemum society Northern Group’s show, Herbie McCauley, had travelled even further, bringing over his entries from Belfast.

John Peace from Easington, County Durham, won the national championship with his nine vases showing five blooms.