Clear skies last night meant that Sark was the perfect place to enjoy fabulous views of a rare blood moon. This magical event is the combination of a super moon, when the moon’s orbit is closest to earth and so appears 8% larger, and a full lunar eclipse when the earth is positioned almost exactly between the moon and sun. At just after 01.00 the earth’s shadow began to appear…

David Owen had a pleasant surprise this week when he unearthed an ancient stone amulet on the north east coast of Sark.The amulet, which would have been worn like a pendant, is made of serpentine, a soft stone unique to Sark within the Channel Islands. A leaf-shaped amulet made of the same type of stone was found during archaeological excavations last June and has been dated as being from the…