Quality of Keys questions is questioned
WITH the island at the mercy of global economic pressures and facing an unprecedented squeeze on public finances, one would have thought there were to be vital questions to be asked in our national...
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Palace Cinema• Avengers Assemble 3D. (12A) Nightly at 7pm. Weekend and Bank Holiday Monday, 2pm.• Cabin In The Woods (15). Nightly at 7.30pm. Read a review of Cabin In The Woods on p24• Mirror Mirror...
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Thursday, May 3• Cardiotone, Laxey Working Men’s Institute, New Road, Laxey. 7-8pm. Also Monday 7-8pm. Call 452729/863602.• Gentle Circuits, NSC, Douglas, 11am. Also Saturday. Call 688588. • Chair...
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Thursday, May 3• Tea dance, South Douglas Old Friends Association, Finch Road, Douglas, 2pm. • Dance classes for children, Centenary Hall, Peel, 4pm. Call 450688. • Strictly Come Dancing for beginners,...
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Thursday, May 3• Castle Rushen High School Performance Showcase. Music from the Windband, Bigband andJunior Choir. School Hall, 7.30pm.• Acoustic Open Mic, The Rosemount Hotel, Douglas, 8pm.• Crosby...
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• Ernst Eisenmayer: Art Beyond Exile, Sayle Gallery, Villa Marina Colonnade, Douglas. Until May 10.Pictures without Paint, Digital Paintings by Martyn Cain. Nobles Hospital until June 10th.• Manx...
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Thursday, May 3• MRA Stretch & Flex at the NSC, Douglas at 10am. Also Friday Ten Pin Bowling at Sure Bowling Alley, Ramsey at 9.45am for 10am. Also on Friday Southern Luncheon at The Cherry Orchard...
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Thursday, May 3• Isle of Man Farmers Market, at Tynwald Mills, St John’s, 11am-3pm. • United Nation’s Association (IOM) AGM, King Edward Bay Golf Club, Onchan, 6.30pm. Followed by dinner, call 878266.•...
View ArticleZac Hall: Lib Van haven’t told me my fate
SUSPENDED Liberal Vannin MHK for Onchan Zac Hall says he has still not been notified of the outcome of a meeting of the party’s executive committee held to decide his fate.Mr Hall was suspended from...
View ArticlePositive Action Group to discuss idea of ‘people’s bank’
THE idea of a ‘people’s bank’ will be discussed at a meeting of the Positive Action Group tonight (Thursday).PAG has linked up with another island group, the Alternative Worldview Society, for the...
View ArticleManx Gas jobs under threat
THE parent company of Manx Gas is to axe about 50 jobs across the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey.Manx Gas, along with Jersey Gas and Guernsey Gas, is owned by the International Energy Group.Manx Gas...
View ArticleAerospace firms’ vital role making new Dreamliner jet
WHEN the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner touched down in the UK for the first time last week there were plenty of smiling faces in the island.For Manx manufacturing firms played a vital part in the...
View ArticleIsle of Man gambling tournament legislation moves step closer
A BILL that aims to promote the staging of live gaming tournaments in the island has moved a step closer to becoming law.The Casino (Amendment) Bill 2012 passed its second reading and clauses stage in...
View ArticleOne head teacher for two Ramsey schools
RAMSEY’s infant and junior schools are to come under the leadership of a single head teacher.From September, Jacqueline Barrow, head teacher at Scoill Ree Gorree since 2009, will also take charge of...
View ArticleConcern in Keys over £8bn fall in bank deposits
CONCERNS were raised in the House of Keys this week about a sharp fall in corporate bank deposits.Alfred Cannan (Michael) said there had been an £8 billion decrease in corporate and trust and fiduciary...
View ArticleLaxey welcomes back Big Wheel Blues Festival this weekend
IT’S big, and it’s back – after an unavoidable trip down the east coast to Douglas for last year’s event, this weekend the Big Wheel Blues Festival will return to its spiritual home of Laxey...
View ArticleZac Hall expelled from LibVan
LIBERAL Vannin MHK for Onchan Zac Hall has been expelled from the party.Party chairman Roy Redmayne today confirmed that Mr Hall’s membership was revoked at a meeting of the party’s executive committee...
View ArticleLatest Netball Festival hailed a success
THE Manx Netball Association hosted its sixth annual Netball Festival as part of the Department of Tourism and Leisure-sponsored Sports Challenge Series at the NSC recently. The latest event in the...
View ArticleRobin Turton is new chairman of Onchan Commissioners
ONCHAN District Commissioners’ new authority chairman is Robin Turton.Mr Turton was elected to the post at the commissioners’ meeting held on Tuesday, May 1. Mr Turton, a port security officer, was...
View ArticleFinal four do battle in Junior Cup semis
THE semi-finals of the Ascot Hotel Junior Cup take centre-stage this Saturday with the competition’s last four - Police, St Mary’s, Peel and St George’s - vying for a place in combination football’s...
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