THIS year’s Miss Yorkshire final, featuring a Bradford contestant, will be held online.

With the winner of the contest qualifying for the Miss England Finals later in the year, leading onto Miss World, there is still a great deal of competitiveness in the heat final.

Bradford’s Darina Skipina is one of the nine Miss Yorkshire finalists.

Each of the contestants has been asked to film and submit videos of themselves, giving an introduction and discussing interesting facts about themselves, wear their favourite dress or evening gown to do a parade on a virtual catwalk, and finally to present a talent or talk about fundraising events.

Phil Green, organiser and owner of Supermodel Agency, said: “The show must go on, and therefore the girls have been asked to do everything on video, which they would have done at the contest venue with a live audience.”

All of the videos are now being watched individually and remotely by a panel of judges, including the current Miss England, Dr Bhasha Mukherjee; Julie Salter, manager of Flawless photographic studios in Leeds, current Miss Lincolnshire, Ella Grace Bayley; former Miss United Kingdom, Nicola Willoughby and Miss England owner/organiser – Angie Beasley. This will be followed by a live interview with each contestant on Zoom.

As well as appointing a new Miss Yorkshire, there is also a title of ‘Miss Popularity’ being awarded to the contestant receiving the most public votes via a phone app. The voting app can be downloaded onto mobile phones at missengland.info The winners are expected to be announced at the end of the live interviews during February.