Brigadier Winifred Bambera, the no-nonsense UNIT leader from the 1989 TV story Battlefield, is returning to Doctor Who!

Bambera returns in the upcoming second season of The Lost Stories, in Animal, written by Andrew Cartmel. Once again she is played by Angela Bruce, who was delighted to be reunited with Sylvester McCoy at the recording in April.

"Animal is a great, old-fashioned UNIT story," says producer David Richardson, "in which Bambera and her troops are investigating some strange events at a university. And then the Doctor and Raine arrive..."

Animal, and the upcoming Lost Stories, are available for pre-order now.

You are Nick Briggs and I claim my five pounds.

NB: I'm more interested in seeing if they make Ace a Timelord in those stories. I assume they're going to.

I hope not! Ace has had more leaving stories than the Doctor's had faces!

Shame.