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The truth about MP who slept rough in the governor’s garden
For a Member of Parliament who once spent his holidays fighting the Taliban, a peaceful mission in St Helena ought to have been a walk in the park. Instead, Mark Lancaster ended up sleeping in one. Or...
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What the nurse said to the governor: Andrew Gurr looks back
When Andrew Gurr arrived on St Helena in 2007 as the first governor to be appointed through open competition, he found an island civil service that was financially adrift. It needed to undergo surgery...
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Keep your distance, please: Jonathan gets some privacy
The paddock that has been home to St Helena’s oldest resident for more than 100 years is to be given a makeover. The island’s planning board has given approval for new fencing to protect Jonathan, one...
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In pictures: life at Plantation House, by Andrew Gurr
Andrew Gurr took thousands of pictures of St Helena during four years as governor. He showed some of them when he addressed the Friends of St Helena, and agreed to share them with readers of this...
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The Column: is there a surreal world inside The Castle?
The idea of turning part of The Castle in Jamestown into a hotel takes an unreal turn in The Column. Did island philosopher Nick Thorpe really mean to suggest that inside The Castle is “a surreal world...
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After 150-plus years, Gentleman Jonathan gets his privacy
St Helena’s “creakingly old national treasure,” Jonathan the tortoise, will soon be protected from over-enthusiastic tourists, in an effort to extend the long life of the oldest known creature in the...
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How an absent governor returned to St Helena, 230 years on
A chance discovery has led to a former governor of St Helena taking his rightful place on the island, 230 years after he sailed away with his St Helenian wife. Here, New Zealander DAVID NICOLL tells...
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