Tuesday, 2nd December 2008

News from the Guernsey Press

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Racing in the rain

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SARK’S annual Sheep Race organisers were left ruefully counting the cost of the old saying, ‘what a difference a day makes’, after last weekend’s weather.

Sark News keeps up pressure over Lark

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PRESSURE is continuing over the Sark Lark.

Spirit of generosity

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THERE seems to be something about Sark that makes people want to part with huge amounts of money.

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GFSC: Sark Lark? We’re on the case

THE Guernsey Financial Services Commission is doing everything it can to stamp out the so-called ‘Sark Lark’, according to its director-general Peter Neville.

Sheep race needs ewe for fun time

I HAVE been asked by Rossford de Carteret, who seems to look upon raising money for the Professor Saint Medical Fund as a personal crusade, to remind people – and particularly the hundreds from Guernsey who support this charity so generously – that the annual sheep racing meeting is not far away.

Decision time

CHIEF Pleas will meet on 2 July for what, after the appropriate part of the new Reform Law is implemented, will in future be termed the Midsummer Meeting and will become the fourth – after Christmas, Easter and Michaelmas – annual statutory meeting of the legislature.

Barclays will continue to challenge Sark reform

THE Barclay brothers failed yesterday in a legal bid to force a rethink on Sark’s constitutional reforms.

Charities begin at home

WALKERS from Sark played their part in Saturday’s Itex Walk in Guernsey and four of them completed the full 40 miles – a quite magnificent feat, if readers will excuse the deliberate and convenient play on words.

Sark’s new doctor is shown the light

SARK said goodbye to its medical officer last week and at the same time welcomed his successor.

A quick departure for bad tempers

HAVING written only a few weeks ago about a Chief Pleas sitting being a bad-tempered affair, it’s only right that when all is sweetness and light, on one of these occasions I should record the fact.