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Concerned by the state of their love life, Amira asks Christian for advice about seducing Syed, in the first visit of the week to Albert Square.

Elsewhere, competitiveness takes over as Pat and Peggy both run for council, while there is an anxious wait for Jack's family at the hospital.

Amira is played by Preeya Kalidas, Christian by John Partridge, Pat by Pam St Clements, Peggy by Barbara Windsor and Jack by Scott Maslen.

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Three chefs from the North West of England – Aiden Byrne (The Church Green), Johnnie Mountain (Mozaica) and Lisa Allen (Northcote) – compete this week to cook at a fabulous banquet celebrating the wealth of delicious produce grown, reared and fished across the UK, to be hosted by HRH The Prince of Wales.

Under pressure to source their ingredients from new suppliers, Aiden is keen to create a dish using both sea- and freshwater fish from his region. His menu includes poached and roasted chicken with new season onions; turbot with brown shrimps and spring vegetables; oak roast middle white port with broad beans and wild mushrooms; and caramel parfait with honey ice-cream and a caramel tuile.

Johnnie is impressed by the deer he saw in the grounds at Tatton Park and is inspired to combine venison with rare breed pork, following a visit to the farm. His menu includes rabbit pudding with parched peas and gravy; bream with hazelnuts, salted caramel and garden leaves; Gloucester Old Spot pork with smoked venison, cauliflower cheese and goose fat potatoes; and rhubarb and custard tart with beetroot ice-cream.

Lisa, meanwhile, discovered some fantastic milk and eggs for the meringue and old English cream components of her dish but is keen to incorporate an ingredient more specific to the region. She found exactly what she was looking for in nearby Kendal – the famous mint cake. Her menu includes wild rabbit and leek turnover with piccalilli; wild sea bass with shrimp toastie, tomato liquor and samphire; salt marsh lamb with sweetbreads, woodland mushrooms and sorrel; and strawberries, meringue and mint cake water ice.

Marcus Wareing is this week's veteran chef and, each day, he scrutinises every dish, judging them for taste and execution. The chef with the lowest total score on Thursday will be eliminated from the competition and only the two remaining chefs will go through to cook for the Great British Menu judges – Oliver Peyton, Prue Leith and Matthew Fort – on Friday.

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Out Of The Frying Pan Ep 1/6

Monday 12 April

9.00-10.00pm 91Èȱ¬ TWO (Schedule addition 30 March)

• Feature (interview with James Knight Pacheco)
• Feature (interview with Alasdair Hooper)

Alasdair Hooper (left) and James Knight Pacheco enter the world of event catering

Out Of The Frying Pan is a new six-part series following two of the most popular contestants from The Restaurant as they launch themselves into the world of event catering.

Since they were runners-up in the 2008 series of The Restaurant, chef James Knight Pacheco and front of house Alasdair Hooper have been taken under the wing of Raymond Blanc for intensive training at his own restaurant.

Now they're cutting the apron strings to try out their new skills in the real world. How will they manage as they take on six challenging events guaranteed to test their culinary skills to the full?

James and Ali's first event couldn't be more demanding. Their services are required by multi-millionaire businessman and Dragons' Den star Duncan Bannatyne, who is throwing a six-course dinner party.

If that wasn't intimidating enough, the party is for his neighbours in the exclusive hill-top town of Mougins, just outside Cannes in the south of France, where Duncan and his wife, Joanne, own a luxury villa.

It's a prestige catering gig. But with no local knowledge or language skills, can James and Ali serve up a night to remember?

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The ZingZillas create more musical mayhem

CBeebies' younger viewers can tune in for more musical mayhem and madness this week, as the new music sensation ZingZillas continues. This week's visitors to the tropical island glade include Brit award-winning cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, Jugnu Bhangra, bluegrass band Kickin' Alice and the Appalachian Cloggers, harpist Catrin Finch and saxophonist James Knight. Together, they join forces with Zak, Tang, Panzee and Drum in the daily Big Zing.

The fun begins on Monday, and there is sticker trouble as Panzee prepares to play a duet with cellist Julian Lloyd Webber. Julian has given Panzee a special sticker of a cello which helps her focus on practising her music, even when it's really tricky. She loves showing the sticker off to all her friends around the island – until Granite and Gravel spot that it's missing. Can Panzee play her duet without her lucky sticker?

Tuesday starts with Zak, Panzee and Tang all heading off into the jungle for some exercise. Zak makes up a special exercising song and they get so caught up in it they end up on the other side of the island. Meanwhile, Drum has stayed behind and is lured to the glade by the sound of drumming and dancing. There, she sees Jugnu Bhangra in action and she's so captivated she joins in. DJ Loose is worried the other ZingZillas won't make it back in time, so Drum starts preparing to do a Bhangra Big Zing, using one of Todd's sheets as a costume. As the fourth coconut falls, the other ZingZillas make it back just in time to combine Drum's Bhangra dancing with Zak's bouncing exercise song to create a magnificent Bhangra Beats Big Zing.

Panzee's new boots arrive on Wednesday and she can't wait to try them on. They make an annoying squeaky sound but, before Zak can mention it, they all rush off to the glade with DJ Loose to hear Bluegrass band Kickin' Alice, accompanied by a troop of Appalachian cloggers. Panzee particularly likes the clogging but the rehearsal for the Big Zing grinds to a halt when she starts to clog – the others can't stand the squeaking sound coming from her boots. Panzee runs away thinking they don't like her dancing, so the race is on for them to make up and fix her squeaky boots in time for the Big Zing.

On Thursday there is a special night-time Big Zing and Drum is really excited about staying up late. The other ZingZillas try to persuade her to have a nap in the afternoon or she'll be too tired to play, but Drum is too excited to rest even for a moment. The dreamy sound of the harp from today's glade guest, Catrin Finch, gives Tang an idea – the band can write a lullaby to send Drum to sleep. Drum has dashed off again but they eventually track her down in the glade, fast asleep, listening to the harp playing. But now it's time to wake her up and the ZingZillas gather to play the Big Night Zing, accompanied by the harp. At the end of the song a tired Drum finally drifts off to sleep.

In Friday's finale, A Great Place To Live, Zak discovers Todd stuck behind boxes in his cave. Todd has run out of room so Zak suggests he moves into the Clubhouse with the ZingZillas. But the band need to rehearse without being disturbed, so they move to the Coconut Hut. When the Beach Byrds hear the ZingZillas' loud rehearsing they decide to move out. Even the Moaning Stones think it would be nice to move away from their beach.

But who will keep an eye on the coconut clock? While everyone is running around trying to get Granite and Gravel back to the beach, saxophonist James Knight is playing in the glade, inspiring a brilliant moving house Big Zing.

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