As Bradford freezes, office girl Lauren Stott will make many of us green with envy.

For Lauren is about to turn Girl Friday after winning two weeks’ work experience in the Bahamas.

The 25-year-old beat competition from hundreds of other hopefuls to learn how to find the perfect beach.

Lauren, who lives with her parents at The Goat’s Head pub in Steeton, near Keighley, will spend the fortnight testing beaches for the exclusive Sandals holiday resort company, shadowing its official ‘sandman’ Jeremy Jones.

Lauren was bitten by the travel bug going off on family cruises. To enter the competition on the company’s website she had to say why she deserved to be Sandman’s lucky apprentice.

“I just wrote a poem on a whim about crisp white sand, crystal-clear waters and the sun-beating down – the hotter the better,” said the sun-worshipper.

Some of the tips Lauren will be learning during her stay at Sandals’ new Emerald Bay resort will be finding hidden beaches, checking sand and air quality, carrying out tests on tides and the water – and analysing the views.

“I’m looking forward to all of that but I’m really hoping to get some time off to go scuba diving,” said Lauren, who has a law degree and is now searching for her dream job.

She has worked in a solicitors’ office, as a waitress in Lanzarote and travelled through south-east Asia and Australia. “I would send e-mails home and dad used to pass them round the pub,” she said. “Everyone felt as though they were there with me.”

In April Lauren starts two months’ voluntary work for Caroline’s Rainbow Foundation which teaches young people to stay safe when travelling abroad.