Holdthefrontpage can finally reveal the winner of its competition to win a laptop by writing about the dangers of journalism.

Lana Clements, from Witney, Oxfordshire, was selected as the winner from our bulging in-box of entries.

The contest was run in conjunction with JVC to mark the launch of the film about the fearless investigative reporter Veronica Guerin, which went on general release last month.

We offered readers the chance to win a mini JVC notebook worth around £1,600.

Those who took part were asked to write a brief piece on the dangers of journalism - either investigative or in a war-torn situation.

Lana's winning article will be published on the official film site and can be read here at Holdthefrontpage.

Student Lana said: "I'm not a journalist yet but I'd really like to be. I'm studying American studies in Leicester at the moment but in my spare time I write for the young people's 69 Magazine, which circulates in the Midlands.

"I get the Holdthefrontpage mail-out and that's where I saw the competition so I just thought I'd go ahead and enter!"

Veronica Guerin, played in the film by Cate Blanchett, was a courageous journalist who covered the crime beat in Dublin during the mid 1990s.

Her brutal murder in June 1996 forced a major revision of Ireland's laws and led to the arrests of many top criminals.

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