Eccles cake Eccles cakes do not have Protected Geographical Status, so may be manufactured anywhere and still labelled as "Eccles" cakes. The Banbury cake is an oval cake from Banbury, Oxfordshire, similarly filled with currants. The Chorley cake (from Chorley in Lancashire) is flatter, made with shortcrust pastry rather than flaky pastry and is devoid of sugar topping. The Blackburn cake is named after the town of Blackburn, Lancashire, and is made with stewed apples in place of currants. British fire brigades have reported fires started by Eccles cakes overcooked in microwave ovens. The problem occurs because sugar, contained in the cakes,
Malcolm Eccles Malcolm Eccles Malcolm Eccles (born 1969) is a utilities senior executive. Eccles is currently the Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of the Basslink group based in Melbourne, Australia. Eccles was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria. In addition to his work with Basslink, he also serves as a Non-executive director on the boards of City Gas (Singapore) and Gippsland Water (Australia). He has also been a director and Executive Committee member of the ICPC (International Cable Protection Committee) since 2007. Eccles has been involved in HVDC and submarine cable technology since 2002. His engineering career commenced in 1986 when he served