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’bye to Granny Alice

THE doyenne of Sark’s charity workers and fund-raisers, ‘Granny’ Alice de Carteret, died last week at the age of 93.

Time and Tide is new Squires

SARK Shipping’s management has made a move to bring back entertainment to Creux Harbour.

Straw urged to throw out Sark reforms

LORD Chancellor Jack Straw is again being asked to throw out Sark’s proposed moves towards democracy.

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Helicopter pad lands on committee desk

PLANS for a helicopter landing pad near the clifftop on Sark’s north-west coast have been published and a series of public site visits arranged.

Census would help plan for the future

FOR a place which usually lays claim to the saying that this is where time stands still, things are certainly changing in Sark.

New doctor for Sark

SARK has a new medical officer to replace Dr Frank Teunisse, who leaves his post at the end of May after more than three years in the island.

Light touch needed to check business overkill

ON THE days when Sark Shipping’s services permit such things – Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, along with the occasional Saturday shopping trips – day trippers have been putting in the occasional appearance.

Not pay? Guernsey does very nicely out of us

GIVEN my origins, the last thing I want to do is to needlessly stick my neck out and start throwing my tuppence-worth into the minor local difficulties caused by the fishing dispute between Guernsey and Jersey.