by holdthefrontpage staff
South Wales Argus trainee reporter Claire Burke is to travel on assignment to South Africa after winning a travel bursary for young journalists.
The 25-year-old will investigate groundbreaking work in HIV and Aids prevention after being named this year's winner of the Nick Lewis Travel Bursary.
The bursary was set up by the family of former Argus reporter and sub-editor Nick Lewis after he died from cancer in 1999.
His mother Peggy presented Claire with her £1,500 award.
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Claire receives the bursary cheque from memorial trustees Nigel Gabriel and Peggy Lewis |
The money will help Claire pay for the trip, during which she will work on a feature on the work of local man and specialist HIV nurse Marcus McIlvray.
The exact details of the trip are yet to be confirmed, but it is expected that she will fly out in April and spend two weeks near Durban.
Claire said: "I'm absolutely thrilled."
Argus deputy editor Nicole Garnon said: "The Nick Lewis Travel Bursary offers our young journalists a fantastic opportunity to carry out a foreign assignment.
"We would like to thank Nick Lewis's mother, and the other trustees, for their generous support."
Previous winners have travelled to the USA, Jamaica, Portugal and India. The bursary is open to journalists at the South Wales Argus and its south east Wales weeklies.
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