Newsletter says it is vindicated by still unpublished report

THERE was an interesting sideshow – that’s probably the wrong expression, but I can’t think of another right now – to last week’s Liberation Day activities while the Chelsea Pensioners were doing their bit with island schoolchildren and the memorial window at St Peter’s Church was being rededicated.

ST PETER’S Anglican Church was packed for the funeral service earlier this week of one of Sark’s diminishing number of ‘characters’, Anita Nicolle.

A memorial window to the Sark servicemen who died in the First World War was rededicated yesterday as part of the island’s Liberation Day commemorations.

SARK is in the middle of its annual Wildflower Fortnight and despite some unseasonal weather in March with unusually high temperatures bringing an abundance of early growth, the bluebells are still out and looking great and there are some lovely displays of what’s really nice about this place all over the island.

DURING the decade and more in which I have been writing this column, I have sometimes heard of the Sark Yacht Club and wondered what it actually did.

GUERNSEY Police are in Sark as I write investigating an allegation that there was a series of explosions early on Sunday morning near the offices of Sark Estate Management, from where the Sark Newsletter is published.

TRENCHANT criticism of Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, their legal advisers in both the UK and Guernsey, and Kevin Delaney, the managing director of Sark Estate Management, came from a number of quarters in Sark’s Chief Pleas yesterday.

EXPLOSIVE devices were set off outside Sark Estate Management’s managing director Kevin Delaney’s office at the weekend.

SARK youngsters sailed their model boats on the duck pond near Petit Beauregard on Good Friday and so continued a tradition that older residents believe is at least a century old.

DURING the last 10 years, experience has shown me that the fewer times I refer to the largest of the Channel Islands in this column, the less likely it will be that I will incur the wrath of readers in the second-largest.

SARK’S Seigneur Michael Beaumont told BBC radio’s flagship morning news programme that he believed the Queen wanted to intervene in the island’s ongoing fight with the Barclay family, but could not do so constitutionally.