Louise joins the X-Ray team, maximising her investigative journalist skills.
Louise moved with her family from Langstone near Newport when she was seven, and was raised in Llandegfan near Menai Bridge. She got her first taste of journalism straight from school as a cub reporter on the North Wales Chronicle in Bangor.

She worked on weekly newspapers in Colwyn Bay and Rhyl, before moving on to the Wrexham Evening Leader, where she covered her first big story, the Hillsborough disaster. After four years at the Leader, she moved north, to the Lancashire Evening Post in Preston, where Louise was education correspondent.

A year later, Louise moved closer to home, to the Daily Post. Her job took her to Bosnia to report on the Mostar massacre, and she twice won the regional Young Journalist of the Year award. She went on to become one of the youngest news editors in regional newspapers when she took over at the helm of 3 Daily Post editions.

A job with HTV Wales based at Colwyn Bay paved Louise's way to the BBC Wales newsroom in Bangor.

"My dad was the person who gave me the idea about journalism in the first place," she says. "It was after my A-levels, and we were sitting around the kitchen table deciding on what I could do next. He mentioned journalism, and I thought, 'Yes, that's it'."

"Because I come from a strong newspaper background, it's really good to work with a team which prides itself on being able to get results. It's important for us at X-Ray to ask the kind of questions that viewers at home want answered," she says.

"I'd like to hear from more people, to find out about their stories," she says. "People might think their own story is insignificant, but more often than not, they're not alone and there's almost always a wider issue once you start digging. No job is too big or too small, as they say!"

"People often say 'You're really brave' because I confront people, but it's just part of the job. Door-stepping is unpredictable by nature. You're walking up to someone in the street, confronting them with evidence of wrongdoing, so you never know how they'll react."

"But I never feel I'm put in a situation which is too dangerous, because there's a whole team working with me, so every eventuality is thought through before it happens."