Celebrities including Claudia Winkleman and Alison Hammond have been featured in cake designs at Cake International in Birmingham's NEC. The show displays spectacular creations, from lifelike handbags and sandwiches to elaborate edible sculptures. Around 25,000 visitors are expected over the three days of the event, which was established in 1994.
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A rare prototype of the 1940s road safety board game Stop or Go, never manufactured, was found in a family attic. It has now been bought by the Museum of Board Games in Newent, where it is on permanent display.
Two baker friends who started out making cakes at home have won an international TV baking competition. Dusica Roberts from Somerset and Verity Malinowska from Plymouth took part in the Canadian series Bake Master Battles, where they built a zombie cake sculpture in three hours.
Rachel Cassidy, a BBC Weather Watcher from Limavady, has been shortlisted for an international weather photography award. Her picture of noctilucent clouds over the north coast of Northern Ireland was taken from her own garden.
