The Tuesday letters page looks forward to an annoucement about Final Fantasy 17, as one reader fears too much of a good thing with Silent Hill.

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Fantasy No. XVII
With Final Fantasy 7 Revelation out next year it doesn’t seem like we have any clues as to what comes next. There’s been some hints of more Final Fantasy 7 games, but I assume they must be years and years away. But what about Final Fantasy 17?

It’s only been two years since Final Fantasy 16 but it feels like a lot longer, I think because nobody really liked that one and the Final Fantasy 7 remakes have gone down a lot better, or at least that’s how it seems to me.

Personally, my hope is that Square Enix go back to the Japanese style strangeness of the series, rather than the Game of Thrones knock-off that 17 was going for. I think there was a rumour that they were thinking of moving back to turn-based combat and I think that’d be a great idea.

It’d be nice if there was a reveal date to look forward to but hopefully we’ll see something about it next year at least. I really liked the Final Fantasy 7 games and I’d like to see them take what they learned from them and make a brand new game.
Lockmaon

The legend of Navi
I think the general mood around the Zelda: Ocarina Of Time remake is positive, which means it’ll probably sell well enough to see Majora’s Mask get the same treatment. But what I wonder is if they’d ever do a sequel to those two games. As far as I know there’s never been an explanation for where Navi went at the end of the game and Link doesn’t find her in Majora’s Mask.

Maybe it’s discussed in some manga or something, but I would very much welcome a new game in the style of Ocarina Of Time, which was about Link and Navi reuniting. I feel it would be a good excuse to go back to the old style of game, which they’re not going to do again for a mainline sequel, and it would tie up a plot point that’s always bugged me.

The fact that she left and Majora’s Mask is all about finding her seems like they had very specific plans for her and a possible third game, but I’ve never heard anything about that. Or am I missing something obvious?
Korbie

GC: As far as we know there’s no explanation for where she went.

Silent Hill: Luxembourg
Nice review of Silent Hill: Townfall and I’m glad to see it’s decent. But I don’t really see how they’re going to keep this going for one game every year. Setting it in a different country each time is all very well but when the gameplay is always the same it’s not going to make much difference.

Silent Hill f impressed me because the story and characters were so unique but that doesn’t seem to be true of Townfall, which is more of a generic Silent Hill story. There’s nothing wrong with that right now but there is going to be if there’s another next year and another after that.

And I hear they’re trying to get a new movie done too, after the success of Resident Evil. That’ll be the fourth one? Or is it fifth? You really can have too much of a good thing you know.
Benson

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Constant trolling
I also admire the people constantly trolling Sony over their no discs policy, on YouTube and Twitter and everything. I check in on the YouTube channel every now and then, to see if they’re still at it, and they always are. I do feel sorry when it’s an obscure indie game but at the end of the day it’s Sony’s fault and they deserve to get all the flak they can.

I can just imagine their plan involved them assuming people would get tired of complaining within a couple of months but that hasn’t happened. That hasn’t changed their approach though and I think they only ever had one plan: wait them out.

I was curious to see what the comments would be like on the GTA 6 trailer but for some reason they only have Trailer 2, which came out before the all-digital annoucement. The only other video they have is for the GTA 6 controllers which are, you guessed it, filled with comments about whether you can buy them digitally… Good on those people.
BilBlipper

Status quo
Anyone thinking Marvel’s Wolverine would flop was never being serious. He’s a popular character, the graphics are good, and it’s a Sony first party game. Doing slightly worse than Ghost Of Yōtei is as bad as it was ever going to get and even then I would imagine it still makes its money back.

However, you can be sure that Sony has seen all the complaints and discontent and… will probably do nothing about it. I mean what should they do? Maybe they’ll tell Insomniac to make the skill tree a bit bigger next time or add a few more combos, but that’s all.

The things that upset gamers do not upset ordinary people and there’s a lot more of them than us. Now if it had flopped, that would have been different, but when it’s only a small dent in their profits it’s much easier to just carry on as they were.
Ishi

Technical support
One of the best things about this site is the Underbox. It’s one of the few comment sections left on the internet where reasonable and logical discussion can be found. There’s a dedicated community down there, with some people being there for years and conversing daily with each other.

So it’s a shame that it’s littered with technical problems that have persisted a long time now. I know this isn’t your department, but it really has become an issue.

The first issue is the logging out problem. It is constantly logging you out on mobile. And it’s an absolute chore to log back in sometimes. This has been an issue for well over a year now.

The second is the terrible moderation of the comments. I and many others have left comments that are in no way against the terms of service. Very long comments and then they’re rejected for unknown reasons.

And the final one is the downvotes by anonymous users. You can always tell it’s an anonymous user because they have a colour or fruit in their name and never comment. They really should only allow users to vote on comments.

I’ve been visiting and commenting on this site for close to a decade, probably more if I really looked. So thank you for news, the articles I’ve been reading. Thanks for all the joy their bringing.
QWERTY

GC: Thanks for this, we’re having someone look into it now. As you can imagine though, it’s not something under our direct control and we can’t act unless we get a complaint.

Spreading the cost
There’s something very odd about any company advertising a video game as being 5p a day, but I guess it makes sense when they’re £70 in total. I’m surprised we haven’t heard about it before because it seems to be something O2 has been doing for a while.

I can’t see it really taking off because it’s so drawn out but maybe if you paid in quarters that would be easier to swallow. But even then £17.50 is more than most indie games. That really brings it home just how expensive full price games are now. Are they four or five times better than an indie game? Not usually, I would say.
Winston

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As seen in-game
Your story about a patent to introduce advertising into gameplay was disturbing. Talk about sacrilege. I detest all adverts. Not to sound like a moany old person but the ads that we had in the seventies and eighties were much better than the ones that are around now.

Works of art in places, and often quite quotable and funny. If the dancing woman from the Shake n’ Vac advert (put the freshness back) interrupted a video game race or sniper battle that I was engaged in I might not even mind so much. But if those meerkats suddenly popped up…

If people are really feeling the pinch and the only way that they can continue gaming is to choose a cheap advert riddled tier, fair enough. In the streaming services that I subscribe to I always choose a more expensive ad free service. I would do the same if adverts invaded gaming.

What’s wrong with having real ads on billboards and signage within games? Whenever I’ve encountered adverts presented that way in the past I haven’t really minded. If I recall correctly some of the Need For Speed games had billboards that advertised real products/brands didn’t they?
Michael Veal

GC: That sort of thing has been tried before, particularly in the late Xbox 360 era, but it never seems to have caught on.

Inbox also-rans
My goodness the GTA 6 characters are a grumpy lot. We’ve all seen countless pictures of them over the last year or two and I’ve not seen a single smile!
Arteta26Legend

Been playing Star Fox Adventures on Nintendo Switch Online and it is amazing how well those graphics still hold up. Pity the game is still rubbish though. It’s like Zelda with every ounce of charm and interactivity squeezed out of it.
Focus

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The Prime Minister has said the UK will provide “defensive air-to-air refuelling” support for Saudi Arabia against Houthis

Andy Burnham has agreed to provide British military support for Saudi Arabia in its struggle against Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The Prime Minister said British planes will provide “defensive” air-to-air refuelling for Saudi jets.

He said he made the decision after discussions with Defence Secretary Wes Streeting and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband.

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The discussions came amid fears that the deepening Middle East crisis will add to cost pressures facing British households, he added.

Several of the busiest airports on the East Coast were hit by FAA ground stops after a construction accident triggered a major telecommunications failure.

The ground stops were expanded to include New York’s John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia airports, as well as Boston Logan International, after earlier flight halts at Newark Liberty, Philadelphia and Teterboro airports.

Federal Aviation Administration officials confirmed that the disruptions stemmed from an accidental line cut at a construction site in New Jersey.

FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said a new circuit would be operational imminently, but it was not clear when ground stops at the New York-area airports would be lifted.

The outage comes as 130 world leaders and dozens of ministers are arriving in New York for the annual high-level meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

The outage centers on frequency and radar link failures at the Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control, or TRACON, an essential facility responsible for managing aircraft approach and departure traffic across the region.

FlightAware, a flight-tracking website, said more than 5,600 U.S. flights were delayed or canceled, including 1,200 flights at the three New York-area airports. Newark operates as a major hub for United Airlines, while Philadelphia serves as an American Airlines hub.

“The FAA is pausing flights into Philadelphia International, Teterboro and Newark Liberty International airports due to issues with some frequencies at Philadelphia TRACON,” an FAA spokesperson said at around 10 a.m.

Travelers stranded across the region posted updates on social media as the delays grew.

“Man, worst possible day for all New York City airports — JFK, LaGuardia, AND Newark — to go down,” Matthew Boyle posted on X as he was preparing to board a flight from Washington, D.C. to New York that was delayed just before boarding. “Beginning of the UNGA high-level week, and apparently FAA problems shutting all three down. (As I was about to board a flight from DC to NY, they delayed it just before we got on plane). Insane.”

Another user by the handle OkadikeOnyeisi wrote on X that the ground stops create “an enormous logistical challenge for airlines, passengers, security teams, and diplomatic delegations” during “an especially sensitive time, with the UN General Assembly bringing hundreds of world leaders and international delegations into New York.”

The outages also prompted concern among travelers regarding heightened security measures.

“I took a flight from Austin to JFK yesterday that had additional TSA check at the gate itself,” X user Michael Scaglione posted. “They assured us it was random, but another person flying told me her flight from Maine to NYC also had additional TSA check at the gate there. “They are lying. Something’s going on.”

The Philadelphia TRACON facility has faced lingering scrutiny regarding its infrastructure. In May 2025, the same air traffic operation guiding flights around Newark suffered repeated communication blackouts. Telecommunications outages also disrupted controller radar displays at Philadelphia TRACON last year.

Congress previously approved $12.5 billion to modernize aging air traffic management infrastructure and expand controller hiring to resolve chronic system vulnerabilities.

The outage at the major U.S. airports comes as the United Kingdom is dealing with its own flight issues.

A “connectivity issue” at NATS Prestwick control center in Scotland grounded flights across Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, Belfast and Manchester on Monday, disrupting thousands of travelers.

Michael Connors, of Landen Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin, has been jailed for 13 years and one month after he was extradited to the UK on June 16 this year following his arrest by the Garda

A 28-year-old Irish man has been jailed for causing the death of a 47-year-old woman by dangerous driving.

Michael Connors, of Landen Road, Ballyfermot, Dublin, was also sentenced for causing serious injury by dangerous driving to the woman’s husband, and a 16-year-old girl. Connors appeared before Mold Crown Court yesterday, where he was jailed for 13 years and one month.

He previously admitted all three charges after he was extradited to the UK on June 16 this year following his arrest by the Garda in Dublin, Ireland on March 11 2026, in connection with the collision.

On March 24 2025, Connors was driving a silver Mercedes car when he made off from police and collided with a Toyota car between Belgrave Road and Percy Road in Hightown, Wrexham.

Lydia La Polla, 47, from Wrexham, the driver of the Toyota car, sadly died from her injuries in Stoke hospital two days later. Lydia’s husband, a passenger in her car, was serious injured in the collision.

Connors, and another male in the silver Mercedes, fled the scene of the collision, leaving two young passengers behind in the car. One of them, a 16-year-old girl, was also seriously injured.

In a victim impact statement read out to the court on sentencing, Lydia’s husband said the death of his beloved wife had left him with a “profound sense of loss”.

“My life will never be the same again,” he wrote. “To say I am heartbroken is an understatement.

“Lydia was a wonderful mother to our children and they absolutely adored her. It breaks my heart to know that their mother won’t be there for their weddings, and she won’t be there to see them grow up and have children of their own.

“Our close family unit has been shattered into a thousand pieces, and it will never be the same again without Lydia.”

Lydia’s daughter added that losing her mother is a “pain that words cannot describe.” She wrote: “This collision did not just take my mum from me; it took away the future I always imagined with her in it. It changed my family forever.

“I have lost the person who loved me unconditionally, who guided me through life, and who was always there whenever I needed her. No amount of time will ever heal that loss. The sadness never truly goes away; I have simply had to learn how to carry it.”

Speaking following sentencing, Chief Superintendent Jaqueline Downes said: “Our deepest sympathies remain with Lydia’s family, who continue to live with the devastating consequences of this incident.

“No one should ever leave their home and not return safely. Lydia’s family conducted themselves with the utmost dignity throughout this complex and protracted case, and I am grateful to them for their trust in our investigation.

“I would also like to thank the members of the public who came to assist those at the scene of the collision before the emergency services arrived.

“In addition to the prison sentence Connors will now serve, he must live with the knowledge that his actions resulted in Lydia’s death and has caused unimaginable pain to her family, as well as serious injury of two more people.

“This case demonstrates the very real dangers associated with driving dangerously and we hope this sentence serves as a warning to others about the potentially devastating consequences of such behaviour.”

The latest indie cosy game mixes the tweeness of village life with a zombie plague that proves surprisingly helpful in running your grave-keeping business.

With their pixel art styling, focus on village life, and refusal to engage in anything as nerve jangling as combat, cosy games have enjoyed increasing popularity over the last decade. Perhaps it’s the parlous state of the world that’s created such a widely felt need to retreat from violence and threat, or maybe it’s just a matter of exploring the boundaries of what video games are capable of simulating.

Whatever it is, cosy games are everywhere, from Nintendo’s evergreen Animal Crossing to Strange Horticulture’s pleasantly occultist take on running a florist. The risk they continually run is crossing the line from comforting to twee, their sweetness mutating from authentic warmth to saccharine sentimentality. Luckily that’s not an issue 2018’s Graveyard Keeper had to contend with.

While it looked much like Stardew Valley, its amusingly morbid interest in autopsies and corpse disposal made it a fundamentally grittier proposition. Its sequel is similarly bereft of schmaltz, its anti-hero accompanied by his only friend and trusted advisor: Larry the cursed talking skull. You both inhabit an in-game base that once again combines morgue, graveyard, sepulchre, alchemy laboratory, and hovel with kitchenette.

Starting the game chained up in a dungeon, you’re soon freed, escaping through a town beset by zombie hordes, before finding yourself once again assigned to grave keeping duties. There you begin your progress through the game’s multiple tech trees, which slowly extend your crafting options, powered by all sorts of resource generators that increase in complexity as you progress through the game.

Presented in a top-down pixel art style that will be immediately familiar to fans of the first game – and Stardew Valley – the sequel retains most of the original’s systems and mechanics. Perhaps assuming prior knowledge, its tutorials are brief rather than comprehensive, which makes for a steep learning curve if you’re coming to this cold. It’s not insurmountable but it makes the opening hours more confusing than they need to be.

That’s because there’s a great deal more to Graveyard Keeper 2 than mere corpse burial, which actually occupies a comparatively small proportion of your time. It is significant though, your surgical abilities tested by removing vital organs and tissue samples before bodies can be laid to rest, their graves decorated with a growing range of respectful fencing and memorials, each of which adds to your cemetery’s quality score.

You’ll also be gardening, your initially small plot dedicated both to cash crops and ingredients for your culinary creations. Preparing the soil, planting seeds, then coming back a day or two later to harvest grains and vegetables; waste foliage can be added to a compost heap that generates peat, which in the fullness of time will help you establish an orchard.

There’s a nearby town with colourful characters whose side quests you can help with, in a gradually expanding web of dependencies that drip feeds in new currencies and powers for your crafting and exploration. Your wooden anvil gives way to an iron one, as you upgrade your rusty starter tools for shiny new bronze ones, which are themselves soon supplanted by iron and steel replacements. It makes for long minutes spent holding down the action button as you craft the necessary combinations of ingredients.

Fortunately, those undead in town turn out to be good for more than just slaying, as you can also send small legions of them into battle rather than paying to hire mercenaries, and put them to work outside your morgue. Zombie stations let you automate crafting that had previously been manual, conveyer belts transporting and combining resources, your production facility changing from occasionally tedious time sink to a partially automated facility staffed by a cooperative cohort of the living dead.

Your keeper needs to take frequent breaks to sleep, recharging the energy needed for crafting, grave digging, and everything else. It’s also worth keeping an eye on the day/night cycle, and the game’s six-day week, which governs when certain characters and jobs will be available. For most of its playtime that’s the only real time pressure in Graveyard Keeper 2, which gives you the space to make up your own mind about priorities and which goals to pursue next.

The number and complexity of concurrent tasks you’re continually undertaking makes the game a test of working memory, with numerous distractions constantly threatening to derail your focus on whatever short and mid-term objectives you find yourself working on. It can also be quite a challenge remembering what combinations of resources you need to bring with you for a particular remote crafting project.

That issue’s eliminated when making stuff closer to home, where ingredients are automatically harvested from nearby chests, obviating the need to fiddle about, getting just the right number of items into your inventory. It’s a useful quality of life upgrade and frees you up to concentrate on more interesting problems.

There’s a huge amount to do, the script is appropriately offbeat, and the voice acting includes plenty of wonderful regional British accents, but despite those myriad touches and the over-arching upgrade process, Graveyard Keeper 2 never quite feels compelling enough. Whether it’s the continual sense of not quite knowing what you’re doing, or the lack of deadlines and sense of looming threat, the moment-to-moment gameplay keeps you busy, but fails to grip you in the way that many crafting-based games manage to.

It’s still a quirky and amusing twist on the genre and if you can get past the sense of bewilderment, as you navigate your way through its systems, there are many hours’ worth of crafting, unlocking, and pixel art cadaver embalming to be had in Graveyard Keeper 2. But it’s not hard to dig up half a dozen other cosy games that are significantly more compelling.

Formats: PlayStation 5 (reviewed), Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC
Price: £15.99
Publisher: tinyBuild
Developer: Lazy Bear Games
Release Date: 22nd September 2026
Age Rating: 16

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Miranda Hart has explained why she decided to sign up to Celebrity Traitors, which comes after years out of the spotlight as she dealt with a series of health struggles

Miranda Hart has explained why she decided to sign up to Celebrity Traitors following her “long term ill health issues.” The comedienne, 53, is best known for fronting her eponymous sitcom in the late 2000s but took a break from the spotlight after becoming increasingly unwell.

The TV star previously told how she had suffered a “tick-borne illness” while living in the USA as a teenager. At one point, she was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, before eventually being diagnosed with Lyme Disease in 2020.

The Celebrity Traitors will mark Miranda’s first mainstream television appearance in six years, and she has now explained that she jumped at the chance to take part.

She said: “My decision making in life generally, and certainly work, is follow the joy. I haven’t done much TV work for a long time, having only recently come out of long-term ill health issues and when I was offered this, my whole body sort of relaxed, I smiled, and I just wanted to jump about like a schoolgirl with joy.

“It’s just fun. It’s outdoors, it’s games. All the stuff I love. It’s play basically. And I’m passionate about encouraging people to play more generally, and this game is that in spades.

“It’s a brilliant television show – the only flaw in taking part is that as a fan of the show it will be less fun to watch it with myself in it!”

Despite her new lease of life, the former Call the Midwife star, who secretly got married in late 2024, is still living with elements of her illness and is struggling to a point but has been able to manage her symptoms and insisted she felt well enough to join Claudia Winkleman’s hit BBC game show.

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She added: “I’m still living with elements of ME, and that brings fatigue and pain to manage, but I have come to a point where I feel well enough to step out, and that’s also partly why I’m doing this.

“The joy of mucking about on television again will hopefully outweigh some of the challenges. And I think it will be challenging on my body, so it’ll be interesting, and it’ll take some courage as this is a big next step.

“When you live with a chronic illness, it’s invisible, so people don’t know that you’re sitting there in pain. But then it reminds you that everybody’s got their thing. So, I’m also really looking forward to making friends and looking after each other and hopefully they can carry me up a hill or whatever we’re going to have to do!”

Miranda, who will appear alongside the likes of Little Mix singer Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Coronation Street legend Julie Hesmondhalgh, and Love Island host Maya Jama, even teased that there could be a nod to her sitcom past.

She added: “When someone said on Instagram, “Oh, I hope you gallop in the castle,” I foolishly replied, Right, I now take that as a dare.” So that was idiotic of me.

“I will have to at some point gallop down a corridor. I’ll gallop when no one’s watching…or who would be the best person to encourage to gallop?

“I don’t know. I mean, Kenny probably doesn’t even know who I am. So, if I could get him to gallop…I could get a new generation galloping.”

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said it is concerned that some people are being steered towards fee-paying debt solutions that may not be suitable for their needs, sometimes through high pressure sales tactics, misleading information or being advised by firms who do not have the appropriate permissions.

Bob Saget’s final project will finally be released more than four years after his death.

The comedian died at age 65 in 2022 after accidental head trauma caused by an unwitnessed fall while he was on a stand-up tour.

Now, he will posthumously appear in a Netflix documentary titled Who is Martin Mull? about the late painter and musician. Saget co-directed and executive produced the project.

A trailer for the documentary, out October 7, shows Saget conducting core interviews with Mull, who died in June 2024 at the age of 80.

“I don’t know where to begin because, to me, you truly are a jack-of-all-trades,” Saget told Mull at the start of the trailer. Without missing a beat, Mull responded, “Jerk-of-all-trades,” earning a belly laugh from Saget.

Saget began working on the documentary about the cult comedian in 2018, with co-director Neil Berkeley taking over after his unexpected death.

“I’m so, so grateful to have been asked… to help complete the work that Bob Saget started back in 2018,” Berkeley wrote on Instagram. “And huge thanks to everyone at Netflix for guiding the film to the finish line.”

The film will chronicle Mull’s wide-ranging career with footage and interviews. “Told in his own words and by the friends who watched it happen, including Steve Martin, Tom Waits, David Alan Grier, and more, it’s the story of a comedy icon who, as he put it, ‘had a hell of a ride,’” according to an official Netflix description.

Saget served as an executive producer on the film alongside Kevin S. Bright, Morgan Neville and Caitrin Rogers. Sean Bradley, Tara Billik and Berkeley produced the project.

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The movie is one of four documentaries about comedy that Netflix is putting out in October.

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Berkeley worked on another documentary in the lineup: A film about stand-up comedian Maria Bamford that he co-directed with Judd Apatow.

“Since the 1990s, stand-up comedian and actor Maria Bamford has built a career on turning radical honesty into radical comedy,” Netflix’s official documentary for the movie reads. “In this documentary, co-directors Apatow and Berkeley trace the comedian’s path — and pathos — from her childhood in Duluth, Minnesota, to her hard-won fame in Los Angeles and her present-day life, showing how Bamford’s mental health journey and family relationships shaped her art and career.” Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story will be out October 23.

Apatow also directed Norm: The Tale of Norm McDonald, which will be released on the platform October 16. The doc was built from archival footage, home videos and personal photos, according to Netflix, which “lets Norm tell his own story in his own voice.”

Finally, the documentary out October 30 is SCTV: The Greatest Show You’ve Never Heard Of. Starring Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy, the documentary follows the rise and fall of one of the most iconic sketch comedy series in TV history.

Amanda Owen, star of Channel 4’s Our Farm Next Door and Channel 5’s Our Yorkshire Farm, visited Museum Gardens for the show on Sunday (September 20).

The author and TV presenter visited York with her children and helped pick the Handsomest Dog, Fanciest Female, Cutest Puppy and Best Trick.

In action at the dog show in Museum Gardens, York, on Sunday (September 20) (Image: Jessica Moses Photography)

A dog in action at Museum Gardens, York, on Sunday (September 20) (Image: Jessica Moses Photography)

Jocelyn Palmer, senior events manager at York Museums Trust, which runs Museum Gardens, said it was a “fantastic day”.

“We welcomed around 1,000 people on Sunday to the Museum Gardens, and just as many, if not more dogs, to celebrate the first city centre dog show,” Jocelyn said.

“It was a fantastic day, with the crowd enjoying the different competition categories like best trick and cutest puppy. The hay bale racing was also a hit.”

“All the stall holders, Amanda Owen and all of us here at York Museums Trust loved meeting all the dogs, so we hope to do more events like this in the future. Watch this space!”

One of the winners at the York dog show at Museum Gardens on Sunday (September 20) (Image: Jessica Moses Photography)

The dog show in Museum Gardens, York, on Sunday (September 20) (Image: Jessica Moses Photography)

Speaking ahead of the event, Amanda said: “I’m so excited to be judging York Dog Show in York Museum Gardens.

“I always love to come and meet all the dogs and their owners and look forward to seeing them all on the day.”

The event, organised by York Museums Trust in partnership with York Dog Park, saw a pop-up shopping village created in the park with treats, toys and accessories on sale. There were also information stalls and talks from veterinary experts.

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Live demonstrations and activities took place throughout the day, including bale racing, training workshops and agility demonstrations.

The Yorkshire Shepherdess became a household name with former husband Clive Owen and their nine children on Channel 5’s Our Yorkshire Farm.

The York dog show at Museum Gardens on Sunday (September 20) (Image: Jessica Moses Photography)

One of the winners at the York dog show at Museum Gardens on Sunday (September 20) (Image: Jessica Moses Photography)

Although the programme ended in 2022, Amanda has continued sharing life in the Yorkshire Dales while farming and appearing on television with her family.

The 51-year-old revealed how she is spending her time as sheep are gathered from the moors for what she calls the “harvest of the Hills”.

Amanda remains closely associated with Ravenseat, the remote Swaledale farm where viewers first got to know the Owen family.

Amanda and Clive have also reunited on screen for More4’s Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids.

The programme follows the family as they restore the derelict farmhouse known as Anty John’s while continuing their everyday farming lives in the Yorkshire Dales.

Another two series were commissioned in 2025, covering both series three and four, as work moved from the exterior of Anty John’s to the enormous job of transforming its interior. The fourth series is now on its way.

Adriana Lima left fans speechless with her latest appearance as she was praised for looking better than ever.

The 45-year-old, who is one of the most influential Victoria’s Secret Angels of all time, stepped out at Madrid Fashion Week on Friday.

The brunette beauty attended the closing party at Reina Sofía Museum in a black backless dress.

She flaunted her sculpted arms and accentuated her cheekbones by wearing her hair in a slicked-back ponytail.

And many fans believed the Brazilian model, who was a Victoria’s Secret Angel from 2000 to 2018, had transformed back into her old self. 

Back in 2023, Lima had raised eyebrows due to the noticeable changes to her face over a short period of time.

At the Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes premiere in Los Angeles, California, in November of that year, she was branded as being unrecognizable.

Social media was set ablaze with speculation before Lima publicly hit out at the scrutiny. 

Back in 2023, Lima had raised eyebrows due to the noticeable changes to her face (left) but has recently transformed (right) 

‘This is the face of a tired mom of one teenage girl, two pre-teens, one active boy, a one-year-old learning to walk, and three dogs… 

‘Thanks for your concern,’ she captioned a makeup-free selfie at the time.

But now her visage is in the spotlight once again as longtime fans of Lima rushed to social media to heap on the praise.

‘People will kick you at your lowest and call it critique.

‘​Former Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima took all the postpartum mockery, went dark for a year, and trained seven days a week like an absolute machine. ​

‘Discipline is the only clapback that matters,’ one wrote.

Another added: ‘Back to the Victoria’s Secret era.’

Others were adamant that it was a ‘completely different person,’ as someone else insisted: ‘This isn’t Adriana Lima!’ 

Back in 2017 (pictured), Lima revealed that she wanted ‘people to look’ at her ‘beyond’ her ‘face/body’ 

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The Daily Mail has since spoken to experts about Lima’s most recent transformation.

Dr Frank Agullo, a board-certified plastic surgeon in El Paso, Texas, said: ‘I think everybody is in agreement that Adriana Lima looks a lot more like she did in her Victoria’s Secret years.’

He pointed out her return to embracing ‘high, defined cheekbones, the visible hollow below them, a sharp jawline, and natural lips that are not overdone.’

But Dr Agullo, who has not treated the star, does not believe Lima’s recent beauty transformation is surgical.

Instead, he suggested the main difference is due to weight loss as well as discussing the possibility of Lima having had face filler dissolved and using ‘radiofrequency for skin tightening.’

‘From the photos, it doesn’t look like a face that has had surgery, but a face that has lost the excessive volume and allowed the deeper structures to show through,’ he concluded.

Dr Masoud Saman, from New York City, agreed after analyzing the latest pictures from Madrid.

He told the Daily Mail: ‘Lighting and makeup play a role too but if I were to guess, I’d say she has had a lot of dermal filler dissolved but I see no evidence of facial surgery.’

The now 45-year-old (pictured in 2018) who is one of the most influential Victoria’s Secret Angels of all time 

Additionally, in light of Lima’s transformation, Dr Riaz Agha, consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Harley Clinic Group, went one step further in suggesting how patients can achieve more facial definition for themselves.

He suggested dermal fillers ‘can restore volume and enhance contours, but adding volume is not the same as lifting sagging tissue.’

‘Where there’s significant sagging, facelift surgery can reposition underlying tissues and remove excess skin to improve jowls and definition around the jawline. It is not just a matter of pulling the skin tighter. 

‘Fillers and surgery can sometimes complement each other, but they do not achieve the same result.’

Dr Agha added that expression lines can be tackled with Botox and recommended laser resurfacing or chemical peels for those tackling skin texture, fine lines and certain pigmentation changes.

‘The aim should be to help someone look refreshed while preserving their own features,’ he concluded.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Lima’s representative for comment.