Annie Macron

It was cash only.

If we had to grab some money in a city, we would then leave that city and move as far as we could on some intercity train as quickly as we could so that they would miss us.

So Guernsey has a weird history, all the Channel Islands do, because they were occupied by the Germans during the Second World War.

It's the only part of Britain that was seized by the Germans.

And they went through five years of hell.

And both my grandfathers left and served.

One was in the mid-Jet submarines, sorting out stuff in place of that Singapore harbour.

And my other grandfather was a Spitfire pilot.

They both served a lot of very hard years in the forces.

And when they went back to Guernsey, both of them, the one who'd been in midget submarines became a grower, which was the big thing in Guernsey at that time.

You built vineries, you grew tomatoes, you exported them.

And my other grandfather had started working life as a journalist, a Spitfire pilot.

So when he went back to Guernsey, he married and settled down, had a family and became a journalist again and became the editor of the local newspaper.

My father, his son, then also went into journalism after having been a pilot also.

So he became the editor of the local paper too.

So yeah, it's not government, actually much more the force of state, as it used to be called, which was trying to hold power to account.

And the way that Guernsey went from tomato growing and tourism in the 50s, 60s, 70s to

being a renowned, rather dodgy-sounding tax haven, which started in the 80s onwards.

This is what my father, particularly when he was editor in the 90s, was trying to expose.

So I grew up with my grandpa and my pa both inculcating me with the idea that the fourth estate is there to speak truth to power.