TWO Sark School pupils have been invited to a tea party at the House of Lords in May following some excellent work in their GCSE studies.

NOT that long ago I reviewed Susan Synnott’s admirably comprehensive book on Sark’s wildflowers and am delighted that my enthusiasm for it – and particularly the colour coding of plants – has been shared by the family and friends to whom I have lent it.

ONE of Britain’s top names in astronomy will be in Sark next week for the Sark Astronomy Society’s ‘Mini-Starfest’.

ONE of Sark’s few eyesores could be in line for demolition and a radical change of use.

THE appeal by Sark’s ex-servicemen and women for £6,000 to restore the First World War memorial window in St Peter’s Church is within just a few hundred pounds of its target.

ON THREE occasions during 30 years as a full-time journalist, I  have made a conscious decision not to attend public meetings in a professional capacity because of a possibility that I might exercise my right as an ordinary citizen and participate.

SARK will struggle to find a doctor as good as Dr Peter Counsell, the local representative of the British Medical Association has said.

AROUND a quarter of Sark’s voters marched in support of the island’s doctor on Saturday and protested against the ‘personal and vindictive’ content of the Sark Newsletter.

TRIAL by media and the Sark Newsletter’s exaggerated importance of the Brecqhou helicopter forced the island’s doctor to resign, it was stated yesterday.

THERE have been calls in Sark for residents to make known their wishes regarding the transport used in emergency medical evacuation to Guernsey.

ABOUT 200 Sark residents signed a petition of support for the island’s medical officer, Dr Peter Counsell, in the first 36 hours.

SARK’S doctor has quit because of what has been described as a ‘campaign of harassment and lies’ against him.