Born in Langstone near Newport, Monmouthshire, her father Dave Elliott was a professional football player, first for Sunderland and then Newcastle United. Aged seven, her family moved to Llandegfan near Menai Bridge, North Wales.

Newspapers

After her A Levels, she joined the North Wales Chronicle in Bangor as a cub reporter. She then worked on newspapers in Colwyn Bay and Rhyl, before to the Wrexham Evening Leader, where she covered the Hillsborough disaster. Four years later she became education correspondent for the Preston-based Lancashire Evening Post.

After a year, she returned to South Wales to join the Newport-based Daily Post, where for reports including one from Bosnia with the Red Cross on the Mostar massacre, she twice won the regional Young Journalist of the Year award. She then became news editor of three editions of the Daily Post, becoming one of the youngest news editors in regional newspapers.

Television

Elliott then took a job with HTV Wales based in Colwyn Bay, and was a regional reporter for ITV's News at Ten.

She then moved to BBC Wales in the Bangor newsroom as regional reporter, before relocating to Cardiff to become education correspondent. As part of her BBC training, she also reported for BBC Radio 4, Radio 5 Live and later the BBC News Channel, as both a regional and special UK correspondent.

Now based at BBC Wales HQ in Llandaff, Elliott works on BBC Radio Wales with Jamie Owen on weekday mornings, and as an investigator on television consumer affairs programme X-Ray.

Personal life

Elliott and her partner Tim Jenkins have a daughter Elizabeth. The family live in Llandaff, with Elliott's daughter, Harriet, from a previous relationship; and is stepmother to Jenkin's daughter, Georgia.