SELLING Sark’s feudal lease would need the Queen’s express consent, according to advice given by the Law Officers.

SARK Seigneur Michael Beaumont has said he will not sell the fief of the island under any circumstances – no matter how high the price offered to him.

Yesterday’s reluctance by the seigneur to discuss his rejection of an offer by the Barclay family to purchase the lease of Sark and its feudal title for £2m. is unfortunate.

SEIGNEUR Michael Beaumont was yesterday reluctant to discuss the publication of private letters that revealed Sir David Barclay had offered to buy the island’s feudal lease and his title.

SEIGNEUR Michael Beaumont has rejected a £2m. offer to ‘sell’ Sark to Sir David Barclay.

Publication today of an offer by Sir David Barclay to buy the feudal lease of Sark and the title of Seigneur from the current incumbent for a total of £2m. is something of a bombshell – but then so is Michael Beaumont’s conditional rejection of it.

CHIEF PLEAS went on the offensive yesterday as conseillers voiced their thoughts following the publication of correspondence between Sir David Barclay and the Seigneur, Michael Beaumont.

Publication yesterday of private correspondence between Sir David Barclay and the Seigneur of Sark has shed a rather different light on the relationship issues between the island and Brecqhou.

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.