AMATEUR baker Sandy Docherty drew on her Irish roots to impress judges with her bread-making skills on last night's Great British Bake Off.

Ms Docherty, a child protection and welfare officer at Baildon's Titus Salt School, stayed in the show despite her poppy-inspired basket of bread flowers labelled a "little bit clumsy" by judge Mary Berry.

Her smoked bacon and onion soda bread was full of flavour, according to the judges, and her four crusty baguettes took seventh place out of ten remaining contestants.

Ms Docherty, who lives in Yeadon, told judges that baking bread was in her blood.

"It's part of my Irish ancestry. I go to Ireland a lot and make it on a range."

After three rounds, the judges decided to say goodbye to Dorret Conway, a 53-year-old accountant from Preston whose bread sculpture was inspired by artist Tracey Emin's 'My Bed' work.

It didn't impress Mr Hollywood who said: "Is it five hours' work; no it isn't. It is raw in the middle. It needed more careful planning on the whole thing."

Mary Berry said that choosing to create "something untidy" wasn't a good idea.

Next week's challenge on the BBC1 show will involve making desserts.