Bid to reduce size of board in village fails
Uncertainty over the future of local government reform has stalled attempts to reduce the board of Port Erin Commissioners from nine to five members.Last week, June 10, commissioner Martin Norbury...
View ArticleScheme to inspire students to achieve their potential
A UK-based charity plans to extend its free of charge online matchmaking service for job-holders and schools in the island this autumn.The Inspiring the Future scheme is run by the Education and...
View ArticleSchoolchildren help biosphere bid
Schools are supporting an attempt to secure global recognition of the Isle of Man as a special place to live, work and visit.The island is preparing a bid to become a United Nations Educational,...
View ArticleHorticultural Show announced
Sulby Horticultural Show will take place on Saturday, August 2, at Lezayre Parish Community Hall in Clenagh Road at 1.30pm.The show will give people of all ages the chance to showcase their honey and...
View ArticleDeadly ‘legal high’ is banned
Tynwald this week voted to ban a drug implicated in the death of a man from Ballasalla last year.William James Ritchie, aged 45, died after taking alpha-Methyltryptamine (AMT), which was legal to use...
View ArticlePlans for Peel’s Market Square now on display
Plans aimed at making the most of Peel’s Market Square are on public display at the commissioners’ offices.Officers will be available between midday and 7pm on Thursday, June 26, to discuss the scheme...
View ArticleClagh Vane residents appeal for play park in estate
A petition urging the Department of Social Care to create a park in the Clagh Vane estate, Ballasalla, has been drawn up by resident Diane Krytnr. The estate is undergoing a redevelopment programme,...
View ArticleDismay at DoI plans to cut costs and raise revenue
A raft of cash-raising proposals by the government has been met with dismay from island businesses and a charity.Money-generating measures suggested in the Department of Infrastructure consultation...
View ArticleCricket side warm up in style for Euros
The Isle of Man won all three of their warm-up matches prior to their first game in the ICC Europe Division Two Championships this evening, Monday.Annual tourists the MCC were beaten twice on Friday at...
View ArticleFire at Grianagh Court
Patients had to be evacuated from Grianagh Court last night after a fire broke out.It broke out at 9:40pm and one half of the building was evacuated.he cause of the fire is being investigated. Patients...
View ArticleLaxey pupils sow seeds for brighter future
Staff and pupils at Laxey Primary School are sowing the seeds for a blaze of colour in the village next spring.The school’s gardening club have planted hundreds of bulbs in the school grounds and...
View ArticleNathan Draper wins cycling’s road race champs
Team Manx Telecom’s Fred Kelly Memorial event doubled up as Isle of Man Cycling Association’s 2014 road race championships on Sunday. The overall title was won by junior rider Nathan Draper, seen...
View ArticleE2E mountain bike event
There’s still time to enter the 2014 End2End Mountain Bike Challenge – a 46-mile race from the Point of Ayre to Cregneash.The entry fee is £45 and includes a commemorative T-shirt. Entry plus transport...
View ArticleSefton loan story is most-read on this site
Our report about the lawyer’s description of the government’s Sefton Group loans as not lawful was the most-read story on our site last week.As soon as the story broke, our site got much busier as...
View ArticleTuesday is News Day: Parking charges proposal to hit government workers...
Today’s Isle of Man Examiner reveals that parking charges could be introduced for government workers whose job never takes them to central Douglas.Teachers who park on government property outside all...
View ArticleArbory parish’s Laa Columb Killey is back
The island’s longest running parish fair, Laa Columb Killey, will take place once more in Arbory parish on June 26.The fair follows a traditional format: at 9.30am the fancy dress – the theme is...
View ArticleSecond-half comeback wins it for Oates
A total of 30 shooters took part in the Trafalgar Hotel-sponsored English Sporting Selection Shoot at Ayre Claye Target Club’s Blue Point range on Sunday.Neil Parsons led at the halfway stage of the...
View ArticleIsle of Man to host scooter rally this weekend
A total of 250 riders – on about 200 scooters – will be coming to the island for a rally this weekend.It will be the fifth time that event organiser Barry Turner, from The Wirral, will have organised...
View ArticleMcGreal holds off Smith to clinch Harrison 2bowl event
Isle of Man Flat Green Bowling Club held its second club competition of the season, the Harrison 2bowl. Singles event, in glorious weather on Saturday. A good entry field of competitors keenly...
View ArticleSanctions are approved over Russia’s annexation of Crimea
Tynwald approved an amendment to an EU sanction on people connected with Russia’s annexation of the Crimea region.Minister for Policy and Reform Chris Robertshaw explained to the court: ‘It amends the...
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