Elaine Hanning, whose late husband Peter was Constable of St Saviour from 2008 to 2011, came to Jersey with her family as a young child after they were forced to flee the Persian Gulf in the 1950s.
She joined the JEP as women’s page editor in 1982 and also worked in the newsroom, as a sub-editor and features editor.
Although her skills lay more in feature writing, her historical knowledge led her to produce the JEP’s Liberation 50 supplement, and Mrs Hanning was also responsible for introducing the weekly ‘Bem Vindos’ pages aimed at Portuguese and Madeiran readers, to involve those communities in Island life and to give them news from back home.
