Lorraine Payne, pictured with her husband, Ken, holding the handbag which was blown from her grasp into the harbour as they made their way to the ferry back to Jersey.

A COUPLE from Jersey want to thank those who helped recover the woman’s handbag from St Peter Port Harbour.

Ken and Lorraine Payne, who live at Belmont Road, St Helier, travelled to Guernsey on Saturday to watch granddaughter Kelly Hughes play in the women’s Muratti.

‘We were walking back to catch the Condor ferry and we were near the Travel Trident hut when the wind blew up strong and it started to pelt with rain,’ said Mr Payne, 79.

‘A gust caught my daughter’s umbrella and turned it inside out, the wheelchair jerked, and the handbag slid off my wife’s lap and into the harbour.’

A member of the marina staff found the handbag lying in the sand and weed at the Travel Trident’s berth the next day and returned it to the couple.

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