She eventually moved to the Daily Mail full-time, working as a general news reporter, covering sport in her spare time.
[4] In 1995, she was appointed as a football reporter for The Sun and subsequently became the newspaper's athletics correspondent.
[1] Orvice was married to fellow sports journalist Ian Ridley, who announced her death from breast cancer on 6 February 2019.
[1] After Orvice's death, The Sun announced the establishment of a sport journalism scholarship in her name.
[1] A spokesperson for the newspaper said the scholarship would be awarded to a "young woman who has all the qualities Vikki held so dearly".