IMAGINE eating at any restaurant in Cardiff Bay, and not picking up the bill, or working out at a top gym for nothing.

Imagine living in a luxury flat and driving a new Land Rover Freelander - and you don't have to buy either of them.

Well, Gwent's Katie Arnold doesn't have to imagine it any more - she has won the life of her dreams for a year.

Young mum Katie, of Poplar Avenue, New Inn, will live for 12 months in the luxury flat in Cardiff Bay, after winning Red Dragon FMs' Get A Life competition.

The competition - which gave listeners the chance to compete for a whole new lifestyle for a year - saw 20-year-old Katie win through a series of challenges until she reached the final on yesterday morning's Breakfast Show, presented by Jason Harrold and Emma Hignett.

Katie, who has an 18-month-old daughter, Emily, pitted her wits against three contestants in a general knowledge quiz which resulted in a tie-break between herself and a fellow contestant.

After a shaky start by both girls, Katie rightly stated that the first heart transplant took place in Cape Town, to scoop the prize.

Now Katie, who works for HSBC in Pontypool, will spend the next 12 months living rent-free in the luxury apartment, driving a new Land Rover Freelander and enjoying free meals.

She will also receive free cinema and concert tickets, VIP passes to clubs in the city and a holiday in the Italian Lakes.

And she will be treated to a makeover and £1,000 of clothes, with a year's David Lloyd gym membership thrown in.

Katie, who spent yesterday afternoon driving around in the new car, said it would take a while for it all to sink in.

"I think I'm still in shock and I really couldn't believe it when Jason and Emma said I'd won the whole lot!

"I entered the competition as a bit of a laugh and I never actually thought I'd get anywhere near the final, let alone win. I've hardly slept all week, I've been so nervous."

She added: "The prize is absolutely fantastic, the flat is just how I would have decorated it. They will have to drag me out!"

Her family and her friends were thrilled, she said, with brother Christopher already angling to be put on the new car's insurance.

"The phone hasn't stopped ringing since I won," she added.

And Katie says she has no worries about getting back to normal when the year is over.

"I'm just going to enjoy it and take every day as it comes," she said.

Eirwen Parker, marketing manager for Red Dragon FM, said it was the biggest giveaway in the station's 16-year history.