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Sark
Fun the target for visiting Ghurkas
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.
Fond memories of Anita at funeral service
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.
Sark marks Liberation with rededication of final window in church
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.
Wildflower appreciation
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.
Yacht Club’s ‘fleet’ makes port
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.
Explosive situation unwarranted
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.
Sark traditions are ‘trampled underfoot by wealthy men’
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.
Police investigate as explosives detonate outside SEM offices
EXPLOSIVE devices were set off outside Sark Estate Management’s managing director Kevin Delaney’s office at the weekend.
Easter launch a 100-year-old tradition
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.
London to get a taste of the islands
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.
Queen is on our side, Seigneur tells Today
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.
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