Sark told mutual tolerance needed

JUSTICE minister Lord McNally told Sark residents yesterday that they faced the challenge of building or rebuilding a community to 'live with each other with mutual tolerance'.

Addressing a public meeting in the Island Hall, the minister said that it was the residents who could bring about a change and added that it was 'not an option to carry on in a soured way'.

Throughout his 50-minute question and answer session, Lord McNally stressed the uniqueness of Sark and his determination while in office to protect the integrity of the island's government.

'There have been points since the war when Whitehall and Westminster could have intervened. They have not. Sark wants to keep its uniqueness but you have to fit that uniqueness into a framework which is sustainable. I want to see Sark develop in a way which allows it to make the decisions it needs,' he said.