Relief as future of Island Hall secured

A ruling by the Court of the Seneschal of Sark has safeguarded the future of the Island Hall, according to its trustees.


Not all licences cost £74K – Health says

BRINGING in a health professional on a five-year licence can cost four times as much as a teacher or lecturer.


A Daring promise – ‘We’ll be back for you to see us soon’

HMS DARING cannot wait to get back in local waters and give islanders the chance to have a look around.


Beemer went bump in the night

A COUPLE who live in Le Truchot were woken early yesterday when a BMW saloon smashed open their front door.


Threatened schools face another day of agonising

ANXIOUS parents and pupils of St Sampson’s and St Andrew’s should find out the future of their schools today.


New on the beach beat

ALDERNEY’S new police sergeant is planning to tackle the island’s crime issues by interacting with the community. Sgt James Priest arrived in the Channel Islands a week ago and started work on the same day as another new recruit, PC Andy Du Four.


Sark visitor expresses thanks

WHEN Sark Constable Alan Blythe called me over in The Avenue earlier this week – it was reminiscent, I have to say, of an incident almost 60 years ago when a member of the Jersey Police wanted ‘a word in your ear, son’, about some apples missing from an orchard. But his word in my [...]


Time to end the divisive bickering

YESTERDAY’S 24-21 vote of confidence in deputy chief minister Bernard Flouquet could scarcely have been more slender and it certainly will not satisfy his many critics, who will remain convinced that the formal States reprimand he received was insufficient punishment for a racist joke that not even he could explain why he told.


The dream is over

HEATHER WATSON’S Australian Open campaign evaporated in the blistering Melbourne heat overnight.


Investment firm faces Madoff action

CLOSED-ENDED Guernsey-based investment company Bramdean Alternatives Ltd is facing possible legal action over Bernard Madoff’s alleged £37bn pyramid scam.

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