Time to talk

IT IS difficult to know precisely why Sark’s General Purposes and Advisory Committee has chosen this week, if at all – and not on the main agenda but as an addendum published little more than a week before Chief Pleas meet – to make public the exchange of correspondence between Seigneur Michael Beaumont and the [...]


Giving it some welly

HERM’S New Year Challenge celebrated its 10th anniversary this month with a spirited bout of welly wanging.


Panto pokes fun at pub

ALDERNEY Theatre Group is breaking with tradition in a bid to liven up February with a pantomime.Local playwright Lee Flewitt has again penned a hilarious script, while encouraging – or in some cases forcing – various island thespians to take part.


Alfas move you

BLOOMING wind and rain – it’s enough to have you looking forward to more snow.


Sark needs to see bigger picture

If attempts by Sark to justify its faintly boorish rejection of an olive branch from its neighbours on Brecqhou were aimed at easing the situation, they will have failed.


Promises and priorities

IT WASN’T obvious at the time, but when the Education minister claimed that after the rebuild of Les Beaucamps School, ‘La Mare de Carteret will be next’, it was the first salvo in what will become a desperate fight between departments for very limited capital monies.


Willis is world’s fourth achiever of corporate chartered status

INSURANCE management and consulting services specialist Willis Management has become only the fourth business to achieve corporate chartered insurer status.


Dodd edges home

PHIL OGIER has exacted a spot of revenge for his defeat in last week’s final of the Capelles Open.


Ski death Jamie thought of coming back to Guernsey

JAMIE Whalley died before he was able to act on recent thoughts of moving back home to Guernsey, it emerged yesterday.


Crane has new record verified

VISITING angler Gary Crane’s 10-14-11 marbled electric ray, caught east of Sark last October, has successfully gained two records.