According to BBC News the newspaper has "close ties to Sark Estate Management", owned by the Barclay brothers.
[5] The BBC reported that tensions had risen to such a pitch that United Kingdom Ministry of Justice officials were monitoring the situation.
[6] In November 2014 BBC News reported that police in nearby Guernsey had received complaints about the newspaper from about fifty Sark residents—ten percent of the Island's population.
[7] The BBC quoted Roseanne Byrnes, a member of the Chief Pleas, the island's legislature, who said the newspaper was "blighting my life and the lives of my family."
[8][9] The Middle East Eye characterized the newspaper as "almost exclusively filled with content that attacks the Sark parliament".