Popularity of BBC show 'could be putting home bakers at risk of developing condition from flour dust

The popularity of The Great British Bake Off could be putting keen home bakers at risk of asthma triggered by flour dust, warn experts.

Some 3,000 people – many of them professional bakers – develop occupational asthma each year.

Charity Asthma UK has warned that amateurs who catch the baking bug from the BBC show could be next