Guernsey Press

Sark visit in doubt but Liberation gets through

PLANES, trains, automobiles and the Condor Liberation were used by people trying to get to Guernsey yesterday.

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And for one couple, that was not the end of the saga.

Nick Abbott and Rose Boyd had travelled from Manchester trying to get to Rose's mum, who is living in Sark for a year.

After finally making it to Guernsey, the revised Liberation arrival time, which got in at 3.30pm, instead of 12.30pm as scheduled, meant they had missed the day's last ferry to Sark and are hoping that the 8am sailing today is able to go despite the high winds forecast.

The pair spent the night in a hotel with their fingers firmly crossed.

'If it does not go I will not get to see my mum, so we are hoping that it can make it through.'

Condor had been forced to cancel its fast ferry sailings at the beginning of Christmas week because storms whipped up waves greater than the legal operating limit of its flagship Liberation.

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