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...Hathaway, 85, one of the Western world's last feudal rulers, was furious. "I can no longer publicize this island as a haven of rest when there are 42 tractors, few of which obey the traffic laws," she said. "I am also tired of having to call on Guernsey police every few weeks because of complaints and utter disregard of licensing [drinking] laws...
After delivering her complaint to the island's parliament, the Dame of Sark, who is responsible only to Queen Elizabeth II, announced that she planned to surrender the sovereignty of her 3-mile-long-by-H-mile-wide island to neighboring Guernsey, eight miles farther out in the English Channel. Her 575 subjects were aghast. "The Dame has put us in a small boat and pushed us down the river," groused Philip Perree, a hotelkeeper. "We have no wish to be ruled by the bureaucrats of Guernsey...
Sarkees fear that union with Guernsey would mean a loss of their ancient privileges. On Sark there is no personal income tax. Instead, after consulting, a dozen of the island's leading citizens set a "poor tax," based on how prosperous a resident appears. "We more or less guess," says William Baker, head of the island's parliament, which is called the Court of Chief Pleas. "We know approximately how much money everyone has and decide how much he can afford...
Died. Sir Ambrose Sherwill, 78, longtime bailiff (civil head) of the Channel island of Guernsey, which, with the isles of Jersey, Sark and Alderney, was the only bit of Britain occupied by the Nazis during World War II; in Guernsey. Guernsey was "taken" in 1940 by the crews of four transport planes. But Sherwill and the Guernsey folk made life miserable for the Germans, helping P.O.W.s to escape, and reporting every Nazi move to London...
Chicken farmers on the Orkney and Shetland islands off Scotland's northern coast were stuck with 2,000,000 eggs and no way to get them to market. On the Channel Islands of Guernsey and Jersey, potato farmers worried about how they would ship this year's crop to Britain...