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Daniel Carr, PR manager at Warings Bakery in Reading, says: Despite the turbulent year and challenges we have faced, Covid has in fact provided at least one positive for our industry and that has been to raise the profile of small independent bakers like ourselves. New customers have discovered us and we find ourselves baking for a new generation of customer that is enjoying our traditional products, with increases in sales of bread, buns, doughnuts, and pastries. Lockdown forced us, out of necessity, to develop online home deliveries and since its launch we have continued to evolve and re-de...

A LAKE District baking business has created an online sourdough tutorial to help people with their baking dilemmas from the comfort of their own homes. A spokesman for Lovingly Artisan said: “This is a virtual baking programme with a difference and, even better still, if you forget a step or get in a pickle you can watch it again and again, because it’s going to be recorded for posterity...” The public is invited to join bakers Aidan Monks and Dean Fletcher on January 24 (10am to 3.30pm) for the virtual event. They will take viewers through all things sourdough, from exploring t...

British Baker looks back on some more stories making the headlines in the most extraordinary year in living memory. Face coverings in shops became mandatory in July, while August and September saw factories such as Greencore hit by Covid-19 and a plan to minimise job losses at Greggs. Here’s how the next three months panned out for the baking industry:   July The Food & Drink Federation (FDF) claimed that the government ban on advertising and promoting ‘unhealthy’ food is unlikely to combat obesity. A range of sweeping measures stating the ‘urgency’ of tackling the obesity time bo...