Idyll shaken by internal politics

SARK has just had what was probably its last busy weekend of the year and unfortunately the sun shone on the wrong day.


Blonde hedgehog protection proves a prickly issue

IT HAS been a bad fortnight for Alderney’s blonde hedgehogs.


Super furry animals

In the first of a two-part series, Tim Earl is in Pole position as he searches for the world’s largest land predator and king of the high Arctic – and in his quest to see a polar bear first-hand has a couple of all-too-close encounters…


No argument: this was bad government

JUNE’S Billet report on banning the display of tobacco products contains just eight pages of argument from Health and Social Services.


Brussels noises are music to funds’ ears

NOISES coming out of Brussels suggest that the much-hyped alternative investment fund managers directive is heading towards a compromise that would appease the local funds industry, it has been claimed.


Priaulx steers to miss dramas

ANDY PRIAULX wants no dramas, certainly not of the negative kind, as he goes into a crucial weekend of racing in Spain.


Legal aid cuts on cards

MANY islanders could soon lose help with fighting their legal battles because of a major review of legal aid.


Rihoy injury worse: he’s out for season

DAVE RIHOY looks certain to miss the rest of the season after finding out his knee ligament damage is more serious than first feared.


Moores angered by Pollet weekend ‘curfew’

MOORES Hotel has hit out at a late-night Lower Pollet traffic ban which launches tonight saying it will place a ‘curfew’ on its guests.


Merrien and Rowe have cause to cheer

LEE MERRIEN heads off to the Pyrenees this weekend with a new all-comers’ record to his name.