A NORTH Pembrokeshire teenager is on course to be the top young chef in the world after showing remarkable culinary skills to become Welsh and British champion.

Sam Everton, 19, of Cilgerran, who has just completed a course at Pembrokeshire College where he gained a diploma in Level Three Professional Cooking, saw off the challenge of more than 800 competitors to win the British title in the World Skills Competition.

It is the biggest vocational education and skills excellence event in the world that reflects global industry.

Competitors in the final represent the best of their peers, are selected from competitions in World Skills member countries and regions and are all under 23 years of age.

Sam, a former pupil at Ysgol y Preseli in Crymych, who is a more than useful player with Bargod Rangers in the Costcutter Ceredigion Football League, won the British title in Birmingham.

He currently works part-time at the Grosvenor Hotel in Cardigan and will shortly take up full-time employment at the five-star Gidleigh Park Hotel at Newton Abbot in Devon

As family and many friends over a wide area joined in congratulating the amicable young chef he said “I’m over the moon, very excited and can’t wait for the world finals. It would be nice to bring the title back to Wales”