Last-minute design lands Heidi €10,000 prize

FASHION designer Heidi Higgins certainly proved a good advertisement for her own work.

The 24-year-old Portlaoise woman yesterday won the Arnotts Best Dressed Lady competition at Punchestown with one of her own creations.

The former student of leading designer, Louise Kennedy, expressed shock at her victory as it was the first time she had ever attended Ladies Day at any race meeting.