THE cooking skills of five Colchester amateur chefs are being put to the test on TV this week.

The group feature on Channel 4’s Come Dine With Me programme, in which contestants host a dinner party for each other with guests voting on the quality of the evening.

The winner, which will be revealed tomorrow night collects a £1,000 prize and the competitors have been sworn to secrecy about the outcome.

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