A Bristol accountant has won a top award for her work.

Vanessa Eyre, pictured, from the Tax and Estate Planning team at law firm TLT, in Redcliff Street, has recently won an Excellence Award from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Step), after achieving the highest mark for her Trust and Estate Accounting (November 2009) diploma paper. Vanessa achieved a distinction overall for the Step diploma.

She is one of seven receiving a Step Excellence Award at the award ceremony to be held on June 22 at the Radisson Blu Portman Hotel, London.