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Who are the Great British Menu chefs and guest judges? Full line-up for the 2018 series

GREAT British Menu is entertaining us with more top class cookery from some of the nation's most talented chefs.

Here's all you need to know about the series, and who will be guest judging each week to decide who is crowned the winner of the NHS-themed series.

 Danny Parker will be returning to show off his culinary skills
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Danny Parker will be returning to show off his culinary skills

Who are the chefs?

Each week a different region of the UK  has a heat.

Here's where they've been and are going:

North East

Danny Parker, House of Tides, Newcastle.

Danny was elimated in the regional final last year but is back this year.

He landed his first kitchen job age 14 and has also appeared on MasterChef: The Professionals.

Daniel Fletcher, Fenchurch at The Sky Garden, London.

He's worked all over the world including top rate British eateries The Square and The Kitchin.

Dave Coulson, Peace & Loaf, Newcastle.

He's another MasterChef alumni and says his signature dish is chicken pie.

London and South East

James Cochran, James Cochran, formerly EC3, London now 1251, London

Scott Goss, The Twenty Six, Tunbridge Wells

Selin Kiazim, Oklava, London

Scotland

Benedict Reade, Edinburgh Food Studio, Edinburgh

Lorna McNee, Andrew Fairlie, Perthshire

Ross Bryans, formally Corrigan’s Mayfair, London

 The regular judging panel will return
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The regular judging panel will return

Central

Marianne Lumb, Marianne, London

Ryan Simpson-Trotman, Orwells, Oxfordshire

Sabrina Gidda, Bernardi’s, London
Wales

Andrew Sheridan, Sosban, Carmarthenshire

Chris Harrod, The Whitebrook, Monmouthshire

Jason Hughes, Chateau Rhianfa, Anglesey

South West

Jude Kereama, Kota, Cornwall

Olivia Barry, Adelina Yard, Bristol

Tom Brown, formally Outlaw’s at the Capital, London now Cornerstone, London

North West

Craig Sherrington, Virginia House, Cumbria

Ellis Barrie, The Marram Grass, Anglesey

Liam Simpson-Trotman, Orwells, Oxfordshire

Northern Ireland

James Devine – formally Noble, Belfast now Ardtara Country House, Londonderry

Shauna Froydenlund, Marcus at The Berkeley, London

Tommy Heaney, The Great House, Bridgend

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Who are the guest judges?

As in previous series the regular judges are Andi Oliver, Oliver Peyton and Matthew Fort but each week will gesture a special guest judge, to go with the theme of the series.

Week 1 -  Dr Anne Weaver (lead clinician with the London Air Ambulance)

Week 2 -  Jenny Turner, Britain's longest serving nurse

Week 3 - Dr Sara Kayat (GP & TV expert)

Week 4 - Dan Smith (consultant paramedic and one of the first at the scene of the Manchester Arena bombing)

Week 5 - Aneira Thomas (first baby born on the NHS and retired mental health nurse)

Week 6 - Barbara Childs (Matron in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital)

Week 7 - Dr Jake Dunning MBE (Infectious disease specialist recognised for his work during the West Africa Ebola epidemic)

Week 8 - Shehan Hettiaratchy (Lead trauma surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital, who helped treat victims of the Grenfell Tower fire)

Trailer for The Great British Menu 2018 celebrating the NHS at 70
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