MEET Champion Maid of Copper for Koromandel - the best bitch in her breed at Crufts.

Away from the world’s biggest and most famous dog show and back in Barnsley, the rare Norwegian Buhund is known as Piika.

Her proud co-owner Jenny Shorer-Wheeler, says Piika, who is only 17 months old takes being a champion show dog in her stride.

Piika, who was bred and born in Finland, is equally at home in the show ring as she is running alongside Jenny through the countryside near their Darton home.

Read more in this weeks Barnsley Chronicle