With over 500 entrants, the two-day event is one of the biggest and most exciting competitions in the UK and is divided into five different categories: live hot, live cold, restaurant, display and the Wessex bake-off.

Open to student chefs, front of house staff and patissiers, the competition – now in its fifth year - is designed to give competitors their “first taste of competition experience.”

The full list of 2018 results is as below:

• Bakery skills - Chole Judd, bronze
• Fruit tart - Connor Stow, gold; William Richomme, cert; Verity Lynn, cert; Sydney Knight, cert;
• Cold chocolate dessert – Nicola Shaw, bronze; Joshua James, bronza
• Starters - Lee Eastman-Thompson, silver; Carlo Downie, cert
• Terrine or pate - Shaun Phillips, bronze; Andy Sutcliffe, bronze
• Fruit and vegetable carving - Jayadeva Sivaraja, gold; Suzanne Moore, bronze
• Meat/poultry/fish/shellfish main - Jack Stoker, gold; Shaun Williamson, bronze; Lee Eastman Thomas, bronze
• Vegetarian Main - Emily Stephenson, bronze
• 3 course gourmet meal - Ben Tingley, bronze
• Gastro pub - Andy Sutcliffe, silver