Buses powered by hydrogen ‘to cut emissions’
SHE MAY have not have triumphed in this year’s contest, but runner-up Kim-Joy Hewlett still hopes to combine baking with her career as a mental health specialist.
Ms Hewlett, who lost to Rahul Mandal, from Rotherham, in last week’s tense finale of the Channel 4 TV show, also said the competition helped boost her confidence as a baker, although she did struggle with some of the challenges.
She said: “I really want to keep going with the baking, and I’d love to combine that with helping people with mental health, because baking in itself is so therapeutic. And eating.”
She joked: “At home baking is therapeutic, but in the tent it’s just not.”
Ms Hewlett, from Leeds, also claimed that she would “love to do a book”, particularly focused on the baking decorations she became known for while in the show.
She said there was a “long process” to audition for the series, but she is “so glad” she did sign up for the show.
Ms Hewlett impressed judges Prue Leith and Paul Hollywood in the final of the baking programme with her landscape of the Lost City Of Atlantis made of ginger cake and biscuit with a salted caramel-filled well and fondant seahorses.
She also won the final technical challenge of the series, but she and fellow finalist Ruby Bhogal missed out on the crown.
An audience of 7.5m viewers tuned in to watch the final of
on Tuesday last week. HYDROGEN-POWERED BUSES could eventually take to the streets of Leeds, according to a report.
West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s transport committee will meet on Friday to discuss how the region can halve carbon emissions over the next two decades.
The report says work is underway to find out which ideas can be put to use, with fleets of hydrogen-powered buses and infrastructure for electric charging vehicles thought to be the most effective ways of cutting emissions.
Other projects include socalled “hyperhubs” – large refuelling stations for different alternative fuels, focused on larger vehicles. The report added that work to reduce air pollution in the city region could generate 100,000 new jobs.
It says the majority of the projects needed cut emissions are also not developed and there are likely to be other savings through private sector programmes.