Kirsty Wark had to hang on tight to this unique cake at Partick Farmers Market on Saturday, after a crowd of punters fought to take it off her hands.

The cake, with the "Tree of Life" logo designed by Timorous Beasties, baked by Top Tier, eventually fetched £50 in a silent auction, which will go towards the Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres.

The Newsnight presenter's own home baking - including her famous banana bread - had sold out "within about 10 minutes" at the market.

"When we arrived in the morning to set up there was already a queue of people waiting to buy the cake. We had to fend people off," she said. "In the end, the whole stall was cleaned out by 1pm. We're still counting the money we raised."

She hopes her Maggie's Bake-a-Cake Stall, which she began in 2005, will beat the record-breaking £2000 raised last year.

Maggie's was the brainchild of Maggie Keswick Jencks, who came up with the idea of the care centres after being told she only had a few months to live when breast cancer, which she had first been diagnosed with in 1988, returned in 1993. The first centre opened in Edinburgh in 1996.

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