NOT long ago, the suggestion that a programme about people baking would become a national TV obsession would have met with derision.

But that is exactly what has happened with the BBC’s Great British Bake Off.

The first series was a huge and surprising hit and has made presenters Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood into household names.

As the much-anticipated series two started this week, there was added interest for people in Oxfordshire in the form of Didcot contestant Christine Wallace.

The series has been pre-recorded and Christine is staying commendably tight lipped about how she has fared.

We can only watch and hope that, unlike her eggs, she can’t be beaten.