Chris Wathan, from the Westgate Sports Agency in Cardiff, has been crowned the prince of punctuation after winning our contest for a laptop computer.

He sent in a corrected version of a passage placed on Holdthefrontpage to mark the release of the new film Shattered Glass, which is now showing at cinemas.

A graduate of the Cardiff Journalism School, he said: "When we were training, one mistake in an exercise or exam and it was a fail!

"I'll probably use the prize for work as laptops are at a premium here."

Chris's work is sent around the country and his local stories are published in regional papers such as Wales on Sunday and the Western Mail.

And after a long season covering the trials and tribulations of the area's football team there are some perks to the job - Chris was reporting from the FA Cup final on Saturday.

He said: "It's very rugby oriented around here but I've managed to get some stories about the round-ball game flowing too!

"I landed a job here when I left the journalism school and it really is my dream job."

Faced with the passage below:

Chris came up with:

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