A journalist has returned to her home patch in a new BBC role.

Elaine Mitchell has started a new role as the corporation’s district reporter for Fermanagh, where she grew up.

Elaine, pictured, has spent 22 years with the BBC, working in various reporting jobs around Northern Ireland, as well as technical and production roles.

Elaine told the Fermanagh Herald she is especially looking forward to reporting on farming, a previous specialism of hers.

She said: “I love meeting and chatting to people, I just hope that people do come up to me and chat away because that is how you find stories by talking to people and finding out the stories that people are interested in.

“My husband says that he thinks whenever I’m back I am going to go sliding back into my Fermanagh accent.

“He thinks I’ve had the corners knocked off since I have been in Belfast for the last 20 years, so I am looking forward to getting my full-on Fermanagh accent back again.”