SARK Seigneur Michael Beaumont has said he will resign if Chief Pleas is in a position where it can no longer work democratically.

SARK Estate manager Kevin Delaney took the decision to end the Barclay brothers’ multi-million pound investment in the island and lay off more than 100 workers.

LAST week’s Chief Pleas sitting was an historic one – the last scheduled meeting of an assembly in which the landowning tenants have sat for almost 450 years.

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.

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

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.

SIR DAVID and Sir Frederick Barclay are suing the original trustees of Sark’s School and Community Centre because a pub, off licence and restaurant are operating from the premises.

SARK is threatening to take legal action that could jeopardise Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay’s investment in the island as a row about freight shipments and monopolies intensifies.

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.

SIR DAVID and Sir Frederick Barclay look set to buy further substantial properties in Sark, prompting speculation that the island will become 'Sarclays'.