The Miss World hurricane whipped into London on Monday, with loveliness queens from crossways the sphere congregation to boot off the bureaucrat countdown to after that month’s grand final in Johannesburg. The 2009 Miss World Festival brought together 120 countrywide winners from countries such as India, Thailand, Australia, China and hosts South Africa, to smaller entities like Tahiti, Gibraltar and Curacao. They were at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Park Lane band of rich hotels to demonstrate off their credentials at a charity dinner marking one month until the December 12 final. “I can’t say now who is the most beautiful because we make out people as more stunning when we know them better,” Yu Sheng, Miss China, told AFP. However, the broadcasting graduate fancies her chances of claim the crown. “Yes, because there are 1.3 billion people at the back me, so I have confidence,” the 22 year old said. “This is my honour, and I geared up a lot for this antagonism and I want to deliver the culture of China.” Meanwhile Miss Sierra Leone, who works in TV in China, said support from the People’s Republic was helping her achieve her goals. “The Chinese people help me to help the poor people, because that is my imagined thing of the mind’s eye, to help the unfortunate people in Africa and all over the world,” Mariatu Kargbo, 23, told AFP. The Freetown girl said her motherland had established down since the 1991-2002 civil wars, but still needed “a lot of help”.” Now a lot of foreigners, more than ever the Chinese people, they are a lot in Sierra Leone, doing commerce there. “We try to see the kind of things we be able to do to encourage, to help the unlucky people because people without foot and arms, they cannot work and we can lend a hand them to produce and give them something to live. For the meantime the new Miss England was receiving used to life in the spotlight. Lance Corporal Katrina Hodge, 22, a British Army soldier festooned for bravery fighting in Iraq, was runner-up in the original competition in July but was hastily promoted last week after Rachel Christie stepped downward. The athlete, niece of British Olympic gold medal endearing jogger Linford Christie, was under arrest after an alleged nightspot punch-up with Miss Manchester in a row over a beefy television character called Tornado. “I thought it was a joke, it seems really unreal,” Hodge, dubbed “Combat Barbie”, said on her call-up. “It’s a hurricane. Sometimes you can be over-prepared so I’ll in all probability come crosswise as a bit more natural. “I like going to work and being a bit of a tomboy, and then I like in receipt of dressed up, like all girls.” Katharine Brown, Miss Scotland, said she was being supported by her old discipline acquaintance, tennis world number four Andy Murray. “Last time I spoke to him he’d just won a tournament and I said many happy returns, but he was like ‘no, congratulations to you, Miss Scotland’. He was so loyal,” the actress said. Miss World, based in London, begins in 1951 and is the oldest international loveliness display. Russia’s Ksenia Sukhinova won the crown last year in Johannesburg.