CHAT show host Alan Titchmarsh is being taught the art of black pudding throwing as he prepares to take on a world championship candidate.

Alan Titchmarsh will be trying to knock more yorkshire puddings off the plinth than Ramsbottom charity worker Lee Gosling, 18, with the help of Tony Sinacola, who runs Chadwicks Original Bury Black Puddings, in Burnley Road East, Waterfoot, with wife Mary.

The black pudding maker will teach Alan Titchmarsh the pudding throwing skills when he takes to the airwaves on new series Alan Titchmarsh and Friends' tomorrow (Wednesday September 4).

The championshiops, which celebrate the ancient rivalry between Lancashire and Yorkshire, take place every year in Ramsbottom, where people throw black puddings at a stack of Yorkshire puddings piled on a plinth 20ft off the ground.

Mr Sinacola, who is taking 35 of his black puddings to the London talk show, said: "I am looking forward to meeting Alan Titchmarsh because he is my agricultural hero.

"He is celebrating things that make English people quirky and unique and the black pudding throwing is one of those.

"There is an art to throwing the puddings, you have to be accurate and throw as hard as you can.

"And it must be an underhand throw, as been set down in the 200 year old rules."

TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh will be sampling Mr Sinacola's Bury Black Pudding, which are made from pigs blood, rusk, Oatmeal, Barley and a secret family ingredient which has been handed down through generations, before challenging the fireman.

The 46-year-old businessman sells thousands of puds, which first arrived in the UK via European monks who then took the delicacy to Yorkshire before bringing them to Lancashire, to customers on Bury's World Famous Bury Markets every week.

Mr Sinacola, of Burnley Road East, said: "People come from all over the world to the championships and to buy our puddings and take them home to their respective countries.

"We have had people from South Africa, Germany and Spain.

"My wife and I sell them at Bury market and our family business has been very successfull."

Mr Sinacola, will be travelling to London with the firefighter and Phil Taylor, who sits on the committee for the world champsionships.