Baker Edward Wright pleaded guilty to three counts of contravening food safety regulations, magistrates heard yesterday (TUES).

Thame magistrates' court was told that Wright, of Thame's Wrights Bakery, in High Street, pleaded guilty to three counts of contravening the Food Safety Regulations 1995.

Officers from South Oxfordshire District Council's Environmental Health Service carried out a food hygiene inspection at the bakery in June.

They found that Wright had failed to ensure that adequate safety procedures were identified, maintained and reviewed.

They also found that he had failed to keep the premises clean and well maintained and failed to ensure that the storage of food was carried out in a hygienic way.

Wright, one of three partners in the business, was fined £1,000 for each of the three counts and South Oxfordshire District Council was awarded costs of £225.

The other two defendants were not present and will appear before Henley magistrates on October 1.

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