After whittling down 12 bakers over the course of 10 episodes, the Channel 4 baking competition show has declared their series 16 winner.

Neil Foden created an environment in which he was ‘inviolable to challenge’, a child practice review by North Wales Safeguarding Board said.

Dame Caroline Dinenage, chairwoman of the culture committee, said the corporation had ‘serious questions to answer’.

The former England women’s footballer told Liverpool Crown Court the pair had previously exchanged ‘friendly, supportive’ private messages.