Community
Thursday, December 20• Manx Footpaths Conservation Group, Fleshwick Bay (Jane’s house), 10.30am. Also Sunday, Chibbanagh Plantation, 1.30pm.Friday, December 21• Carols by Candlelight, Ballagarey...
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Thursday, December 20• Figurative and Miniatures - two exhibitions in one with a huge variety of work from Sayle Gallery Artists. Until January 7.• Festival of Trees Exhibition at IOM Airport...
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Thursday, December 20• Snow White, Gaiety Theatre. Nightly at 7.30pm with various matinees at 2.30pm. From £20 - concessions available. Until January 1.
View ArticleNo injuries after car rolls
A MAN from Braddan was uninjured when the car he was driving rolled and ended up on its roof this morning.The collision happened at about 7.30am in Richmond Hill, Braddan.Emergency services attended...
View ArticleNorovirus patients urged to stay away from hospital
HEALTH chiefs are asking anyone with norovirus to stay away from the hospital.The Department of Health says that in the last two to three days, several patients with vomiting and/or diarrhoea caused by...
View ArticleRefurbished NSC pool re-opens on Sunday
THE public will have their first chance to check out the refurbished facilities at the National Sports Centre in Douglas on Sunday, when the swimming pool area re-opens for the day, ahead of the...
View ArticleChristmas animation
THE Laxey-based ManxAid charity has made and released its own animated Christmas DVD.The story, Santa’s Whiskers Caught Fire, was written by ManxAid’s Jim Douglas, and the four-minute animation...
View ArticleNativity scene is a reminder to pupils
CHILDREN at St Mary’s School in Douglas have been given a reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.Using school funds, the full 11 figures in The Nativity – almost one metre high were bought from a UK...
View ArticleMore farce over reform of LegCo
MOVES towards electoral reform fleetingly took two steps forward - then immediately took two steps back again.David Callister MLC’s private members’ bill for a directly elected Legislative Council was...
View ArticleHelping island to stay ahead of our rivals
PAUL Swindale has been appointed to the board of the Association of Corporate Service Providers (ACSP).Mr Swindale has more than 28 years’ finance industry experience in the Isle of Man and further...
View ArticlePolice think missing man is in the UK
POLICE believe missing man Mark Nicholas Dunn is in the UK.Police discovered that Mark Nicholas Dunn, aged 49yrs, had sailed to the UK on November 28.Officers believe he is still there and there and...
View ArticleBus strike: Day two
THE bus strike has entered its second day.Drivers in the Unite union are manning pickets as they protest against proposed changes in pay and conditions.Children have been getting the steam train and...
View ArticleJoin community in Christmas festivities
TIS the season to be jolly.... Tra la la la la la la la laaaaaaaaaaaaaa!And although most venues are enjoying a quiet period, there is still a whole host of music, drama, festive and community events...
View ArticleWest goes gospel
ST German’s Cathedral in Peel will host The American Gospel Christmas this weekend.Currently touring the British Isles and Ireland, a group of US gospel singers will offer a concert of Christmas music...
View ArticleBook review: Wartime Brides by Lizzie Lane
Drama and romance prove a compelling combination in Lizzie Lane’s novel set in Bristol in the lean years after the Second World War.Warm and wise, funny and heartbreaking, Lane’s stirring stories never...
View ArticleTop four go head to head in JCK Division Two
THE big games continue to come thick and fast in JCK Division Two this weekend when the top four teams all go head-to-head on Saturday afternoon.Michael United could clinch the enviable position of...
View ArticleArchive views show those were the days
THIS collection of archive photographs will make an ideal Christmas gift for anyone interested in Manx social, architectural and transport history.It has been compiled by local historian Richard Davis,...
View ArticleEight drink-drivers charged so far in festive campaign
THIS year’s Christmas drink-drive campaign has so far seen the police conduct more than 340 road side checks and make 10 arrests.A total of eight people so far have been charged with drink-driving and...
View ArticleDream debut for Richardson
ROWAN Richardson may have only made his eagerly-anticipated first team debut for Peel last weekend, but already the western youngster has racked up an appearance in the latest Isle of Man Newspapers’...
View ArticleDHSOB aim to double up against title hopefuls
DOUGLAS High School Old Boys will hope to put the skids on another side’s Canada Life Premier League title aspirations on Saturday when they face St George’s at Glencrutchery Road.Old Boys dented...
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