Newport-based paraplanner, Georgia Whittle, has been handed a prize by the Chartered Insurance Institute, for achieving the best average score for her certificate in paraplanning.

The Rouse Limited employee was already excelling as an administrator before she took on her new challenge.

Georgia said: "It has given me the confidence to keep pushing on."

Rouse Ltd director, Lisa Butler, said: "We are enormously proud of Georgia and her achievement.

"She always puts her heart and soul into her work and is so deserving of this prize."

Paraplanners work alongside financial advisers to help create, implement and review financial plans.