YOU really have to hand it to Bolton bakers Warburtons, they don’t think small.

After employing Hollywood muscleman Sylvester Stallone and then the complete cast of puppet superstars The Muppets for highly successful TV adverts they have now announced plans to create a state-of-the-art research and development centre.

This will allow the family bakery which started in 1870 to create innovative new products, and will help secure the future of jobs there.

Warburtons again prove themselves to be canny when it comes to dough in all its forms. As The Muppets might state about the new development “Mad for it!”