Multi award winning bank Nedbank Private Wealth has been featured in a special documentary.

The business has once again announced strong growth in new business flows and profits, this time for the financial year ending 2015.

The Telegraph Business Club recently approached the company to produce a documentary on the business for its Secrets of Success series.

The series features successful businesses with interesting and individual stories to tell, which can offer inspiration to others.

The documentary currently features on the Telegraph’s website and it is also available in Nedbank Private Wealth’s video gallery, at the website nedbankprivatewealth.com

Business flows in 2015 saw net growth in new client accounts over £50,000 increase 55 per cent year-on-year (YOY), significantly up on the prior year’s impressive 13 per cent YOY increase.

Growth in profit after tax at 38 per cent YOY was also up on the prior year’s noteworthy 30 per cent YOY growth figure.

Income is up 13 per cent and expenses only three per cent, which is due in large part to the continued growth in non-interest revenues, up 15 per cent YOY, with discretionary assets under management leading the pack, up 17 per cent over the same period.

On a consolidated basis, the YOY growth in net profits is equally impressive at 33 per cent.

Greg Horton, managing director at Nedbank Private Wealth, said: ‘I see the key drivers for growth as being the business’s consistent profile of success and its excellent reputation for integrity and exemplary client service.’

Mr Horton added: ‘Consistent upward momentum has been firmly established with net profit after tax in our wealth division growing over 30 per cent in each of the last two years.

‘We anticipate further solid growth during 2016 as the business begins to see the benefits from a growing footprint across our various geographical locations.

‘We are prioritising our technology solutions and over the next two to five years our integrated banking and investment platform, Focus, will seek to provide a full multichannel and omnichannel solution for our clients and intermediaries. Focus, which has won numerous awards over many years, ended 2015 with holdings approaching a new record high of almost £3 billion.’

With the vast majority of business emanating from existing client referrals, Mr Horton sings the praises of not only his team, but also the business’s clients and professional intermediaries who continue to drive the high level of new business referrals.

Another impressive performance and exciting times appear to lie ahead for this business having already won the accolade of Best UK Private Bank at the City of London Wealth Management Awards, for the second successive year.

Falk Horning has been elected to serve on Douglas Council following a bye-election on Thursday June 16.

Mr Horning, of Woodville Terrace in Douglas, will represent Murray’s ward. He won the election, with 226 votes. The only other candidate, Kieran Anthony Derek Lavery, of Springfield Avenue, Douglas, received 140.

Police have uploaded this picture of a car windscreen that was damaged when it was parked at Scoill yn Jubilee’s car park, in Douglas.

The black Fiesta was damaged on June 2 but police have just released the details.

A police spokesman said: ‘Someone has thrown a stone and it has hit this black Fiesta car when it was parked in a car park at Scoill yn Jubilee.

‘We have heard youngsters have been playing in the area during that period and possibly throwing stones.

‘It’s a timely reminder that this is dangerous and can cause damage.’

Police are investigating the theft of a customised BMX bike, with a grey frame, red rimmed wheels, red cranks and Jamaican flag coloured handle grips.

It was taken from outside the front of a home in Buttermere Drive, Onchan on June 7.

Anyone with information should call police headquarters on 631212.

Hundreds of primary school children will take part in the biennial Children in Song gala concert at the Villa Marina’s Royal Hall.

Some 16 school choirs have rehearsed individually and will come together for the first time on Saturday to perform The New Chronicles of Mann by the highly regarded composer Lin Marsh.

The piece was specially written for Children in Song in 2010.

The first half of the concert will see performances from St Mary’s RC School, Onchan School, The Manx Children’s Choir, Scoill Phurt le Moirrey and Ballacottier School.

Guest soloist will be Annabel King, winner of the Sheffield Plate at this year’s Manx Music Festival.

Head of the Department of Education and Children’s music service Maggie Richardson will conduct the young singers.

She said The New Chronicles of Mann was a ‘wonderful collection of attractive songs and poems which highlight different aspects of life in the island, from the mystery of Manannan’s Cloak and the Moddey Dhoo, the historical aspects of internment and the Lady Isabella (Laxey Wheel) to the fun of Strolling Down the Prom and the TT Races’.

Tickets, priced £7 (£3.50 for under 16s) are available from.villagaiety.com, from the Welcome Centre or the Villa Marina box office.

The final countdown is on for the 2016 Manx Telecom Parish Walk which starts tomorrow (Saturday) at 8am.

A total of 1,359 walkers have entered the mass participation sports event which begins on the NSC’s athletics track and takes in 17 parish churches around the 85 mile course.

The 2015 men’s and women’s champions Richard Gerrard and Janette Morgan are back to defend their titles, but as always will face some tough challengers to be the first across the line on Douglas Promenade.

Behind the elite walkers will be hundreds more either aiming to complete personal fitness goals or raise funds for good causes. It’s never been easier for friends, family and spectators to follow the action, and share in the fun and community spirit which is behind the enduring popularity of ‘The Parish’ since it began in 1903.

Live streaming

Whether you’re in Santon or San Diego, Peel or Portugal, you can watch this year’s Manx Telecom Parish Walk live online!

It’s the first time that video of the event has been streamed live.

It’s all thanks to Manx Telecom and well-known Isle of Man athletics enthusiast Murray Lambden who will be videoing the action which can be viewed at www.parishwalk.com on Saturday and Sunday.

It will begin before the event starts at 8am with Murray interviewing some of the walkers, and continuing with coverage of the start as hundreds set off around the running track. As a minimum, there will be coverage via static cameras near the Santon and Peel checkpoints, and when the first finishers cross the line in Douglas late on Saturday evening, Murray will be there to capture the live action and speak to the winners.

Facebook photos

For the second year running everyone entered into the Manx Telecom Parish Walk has the option of signing up for Pic2Go, a free service provided by the event’s title sponsor which allows official photos of walkers to be uploaded to their own individual Facebook page.

When pictures taken on the day are uploaded, special software recognises the unique barcode on the race number of walkers who have registered for the service.

If you have entered this year’s Manx Telecom Parish Walk, you can register for Pic2Go at www.manxtelecom.com/parishphotos – it is run on an ‘opt in’ basis so only those who register will have their photos sent to Facebook.

After the event, Pic2Go photos will be available online to search by race number for anyone who wants to download higher resolution images.

Also after the event, all competitors will have the opportunity to search for photos by race number at isleofman.in (correct address) and purchase higher resolution digital images or order prints, with all profits going to charity. Pic2Go relies on photographers using Manx Telecom’s 4G broadband network to upload thousands of photos while on location around the route.

Race Director Ray Cox and his team have again begin working hard to make sure the event runs smoothly – and they want to say a special thank you this year to Island Drainage and Groundworks (IDG) and the Department of Infrastructure.

Due to regeneration works in Peel, organisers were considering a slight change to the traditional route. However, because work by IDG has progressed well it will now be possible to provide pedestrian access in the area where work is being carried out – and this means walkers will be able to take the usual route through Peel. Ray and the organising committee thank IDG and the DOI for their help in enabling the walk to take place without any detours.

A 35-year-old Douglas woman has been handed a suspended sentence after kicking a police woman.

Stacey Ann Robina Ashton, of Hillside Avenue, was sentenced to 10 weeks’ custody, suspended for two years.

She was also ordered to pay £393.32 court and medical costs.

Chair of the magistrates bench Caroline Convery said while passing sentence: ‘Police have a difficult job to do and require the protection of the court.

‘Violence will not be tolerated.’

The court heard earlier how, on January 20 at 12.05am, police had been called to Ashton’s home on an unrelated matter.

When officers spoke to her they said there was a strong smell of cannabis coming from the premises.

Ashton was asked if she had been smoking the drug and replied: ‘Yeah, I’ve just had a smoke.’

She was arrested on suspicion of possession of cannabis and was said to have backed into the house and became verbally resistant.

Ashton was searched and handcuffed but tried to pull away. She was taken to her front room where a small bag of cannabis was found on the floor.

She told police: ‘Someone must have left that there. It’s a legal high for medicinal use.’

Police said that Ashton appeared drunk but tried to drink more alcohol and was stopped.

She was then said to have tensed up and kicked out at a police woman knocking her off balance.

Defending her in court advocate Pamela Pringle said: ‘My client admitted possession of the cannabis when challenged. She says the police were very rough with her and there was no need to handcuff her for a possession charge. Ms Ashton said the cuffs were tight and she asked the policewoman to loosen them but the officer had hold of them and only made them tighter, at which point she kicked out. She was only wearing flip-flops at the time and denies knocking the woman off balance.’

Douglas Borough Council’s department of environment and regeneration is offering seven apprenticeships.

Applications are invited for an apprentice electrician, plumber, joiner and mechanic, and three gardeners.

Environment and regeneration committee chairman Ritchie McNicholl said: ‘The council recognises the need for the island to develop a skilled workforce in order to support a diverse and resilient economy. It is against this background that the council is offering these practical “learning on the job” opportunities which will give apprentices an insight into the world of work and, importantly, equip them with transferable skills that will open up wider career options and help them to realise their full potential.

‘Apprenticeships deliver on a number of counts: for individuals, for businesses, and for the Manx economy.’

Application packs are available from the council at Douglas Town Hall or from the Henry Bloom Noble Library in Duke Street.

Packs can also be downloaded from douglas.gov.im (search ‘Jobs’).

Closing date for applications Friday, June 24,

Beach Buddies has again been hit by vandals, with one of its brand new rubbish bins targeted at Fleshwick Bay.

The charity only placed the bin at Fleshwick three weeks ago, but over the weekend of June 11-12 vandals attempted to set it on fire.

The £500 metal bin was not seriously damaged, but the bin’s liner and the rubbish inside were badly affected.

It’s not the first time the Beach Buddies charity has found itself the target of vandals and thieves and it’s the second time someone has attempted to set a bin on fire.

The previous attempt was last winter at Port Soderick, following which the bin was also thrown into the nearby river.

Beach Buddies also had items stolen from outside its visitor centre at Niarbyl earlier last year.

‘Nothing surprises us any more,’ said Beach Buddies founder Bill Dale. ‘We believe we are doing something positive for the Isle of Man’s environment and wildlife, but it looks like there are still plenty of idiots around who don’t like what we do.

‘What these people should realise is that we are fast approaching having 7,000 volunteers who support us, and thousands more who use our bins all across the island. Anyone who vandalises one of our bins is making a lot of enemies in the process.’

l Beach Buddies has placed another 10 bins to beach access points across the island in the last three weeks, at a cost of £500 each. The charity aims to have 50 bins by the end of this, its 10th anniversary year, and will expand its operations inland to cover access points to glens, plantations and footpaths.

Bin sponsorship information can be obtained from beachbuddiesisleofman@gmail.com

A man described in court as a talented musician died after taking heroin.

Coroner John Needham recorded a verdict on Christopher Adrian Lennox of death due to non-dependent drug overdose.

Mr Lennox was found dead in his flat on Tynwald Street last August after friends became worried because they had not seen him for some time and contacted the police.

Delivering his verdict, Mr Needham said there was no suggestion of an unlawful killing and no sign of any forced entry to the flat.

Serving prisoner John Slater was convicted of possession of heroin with intent to supply.

He was questioned by Mr Needham about mobile phone communications between him and Mr Lennox. Despite telling police in an earlier interview that he recognised Mr Lennox as someone he knew as ‘Gary, who always carried a guitar’, in court he denied any knowledge of him and said he knew nothing.

A few days before Mr Lennox’s death, records showed up to nine telephone calls between the two, but Mr Slater told the hearing he either didn’t know or couldn’t remember what they were about.

In his summing up, Mr Needham said he had found all witnesses to be ‘truthful and honest apart from Mr Slater’, who, he said had ‘minimised his responsibility in respect of his actions as a heroin dealer, and his knowledge of Chris’.

Moreover he said his responses to questions about the telephone calls between him and Mr Lennox were ‘evasive and untruthful’. Referring to Mr Lennox, he said: ‘He had taken heroin recently before his death. Morphine metabolytes were in his system.

‘The level was such that even in a regular user could be fatal. There was no other anatomical cause to explain the death, which was due to the toxic effect of heroin.’

Referring to the evidence of Dr Inge Gestells, Mr Needham said Mr Lennox had a long history of substance misuse. He had received support from the mental health service and had been treated as an in-patient at Grianagh Court in April.

He had been reluctant to take medication but by his discharge in early June last year was much better. In July, he briefly attended a rehabilitation unit, then Grianagh Court, but did not need to be detained and was discharged.

On this occasion, details of his prescription were not passed on to his GP and as a result he was left for a few days without medication, Mr Needham said.

Mr Lennox subsequently went to the hospital’s A&E unit saying he had taken a heroin overdose, attempting to self-medicate, but discharged himself. A repeat prescription was provided on July 21.

The court heard he seemed lethargic when he visited his mother on July 26 but a couple of days later when he spoke to her about a small business start up interview he had arranged, he was upbeat.

‘Phone records show he made several calls to Mr Slater and I find the only reason was for sourcing heroin. It’s a resonable inference that soon after, he obtained the heroin found in the syringe by his body,’ Mr Needham said, adding the most likely date of death was July 30.

He recommended doctors’ prescription details be passed automatically to patients’ GPs along with the standard discharge forms, to ensure all medication details are communicated to doctors when a patient is discharged.

For a number of years the Rotary Club of Rushen and Western Mann has been actively supporting work to raise stroke awareness.

Once again last Saturday morning in Port Erin, it has helped to organise and run drop in sessions where members of the public could have their blood pressure tested and receive free advice.

Pictured are Rotary Club of Rushen and Western Mann president Terry Clare and members Laurence Skelly, Brian Coole and Hugh Logan at the event.

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People will have the chance to wander around the tranquil gardens of Hospice Isle of Man, as part of the National Gardens Scheme (NGS).

The charity’s gardens, created by Irish gardener Diarmuid Gavin in 2007, will be open to the public on Sunday, June 26 between midday and 4pm.

In addition to the main garden, the Jackie Corkhill Garden, Eva Rose Sensory Garden and the new Children’s Garden will be open for people to enjoy.

Admission is £3 and the money raised will go towards the National Gardens Scheme.

The NGS raises money for various charities by opening gardens of character, quality and beauty across the UK to the public.

Island co-ordinator for NGS, Caroline Couch said: ‘I am delighted such a well-known charity such as Hospice has got involved this year.

‘I am aware Hospice has been on this site for just under nine years and the transformation by the team and others into a truly beautiful garden is to be applauded as well as visited.’

Strawberry afternoon tea will be available at the Hospice event, in Strang, for an additional cost and plants will also be on sale on the day.

The gardens are disabled friendly.

For more information about the event call the Hospice fundraising team on 647432.

An Isle of Man environmental charity is appealing for new members to help them raise awareness of waste reduction and recycling.

Zero Waste Mann, based at the Green Centre in Chester Street, Douglas, is looking for new members and committee members to join the organisation.

Muriel Garland, chair of the island charity, said many committee members have been with Zero Waste Mann since its inception in 2000 and said the charity needs some ‘new blood’.

‘There must be hundreds of people on the island who support what we are doing so we’d like them to become active members and for some of them to join the committee which meets four times a year.

‘Some of us are still on the committee 16 years later and we reckon it is time to get the next generation involved in running Zero Waste Mann.’

Muriel said members would be helping out at the Green Centre and at events the charity attends. ‘People should join if they believe in the case and if they think we should be doing more to promote recycling.’

Zero Waste Mann was set up after hearing a talk by Gerry Gillespie, who now runs Resource Recovery Australia. He has over 30 years expertise in the recycling and composting industries and specialises in organic waste reprocessing and soil carbon.

The island charity’s philosophy is about the reduction of waste, resource recovery, and its aim is for there to be zero waste.

It hopes to encourage people to view waste as a resource to be recycled, repaired or reused, rather than rubbish to be thrown away.

Muriel said: ‘We want to make people aware of waste and promote waste reduction and recycling. With the new government coming in soon, we hope to achieve more. We need a new waste policy or an update.’

Anybody who would like to get involved and find out more can attend the charity’s annual general meeting at 7pm on Thursday, June 23 at the Green Centre opposite Iceland in Chester Street, Douglas.

It costs £5 for an annual membership with Zero Waste Mann.

Membership forms and further information is available at www.zerowastemann.org or by calling the Green Centre on 666029.

This was the scene after a bike crashed on the Mountain Road yesterday (Friday) afternoon.

The accident took place around the Windy Corner area of the Mountain Road.

The fire was put out by the Isle of Man Fire and Rescue Service, and the biker helped by emergency services and taken to hospital.

Two TT fans took the opportunity to make their dreams come true and get married while they were visiting the island.

Gary and Julie Darch, nee Corcoran, from the Wirral, got married at the Empress Hotel in Douglas during practice week.

The newlyweds have been coming to the races and Manx Grand Prix since 1974, visiting more than 30 times in total.

Gary said: ‘It’s a beautiful place, we have lots of memories of good times here.’

The couple are members of the Triumph Owners’ Club and welcomed more than 60 of their biking friends to join the celebrations.

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Plans to start cutting greenhouse gases by 80 per cent from 1990 levels by the year 2050 will go before Tynwald next week.

The Department of Environment, Food and Agriculture will seek approval for a detailed strategy on reducing emissions which will include the first of a series of five-year action plans.

The action plan is divided into measures that the current administration should do and those that will need to be delivered by the next government after the general election.

That first list includes a new cycling strategy to encourage people to get out of their cars and onto their bikes, increasing the number of electric car charging points and promoting the retro-fitting of insulation and efficiency technology in homes.

Environment Minister Richard Ronan believes this will provide a start on the path towards achieving the ambitious 80 per cent target.

‘As a proud and responsible nation, the move to a low emissions economy is both the right thing to do and it is in the best interest of the people and the economy of the Isle of Man,’ he says in his foreword to DEFA’s climate change report to Tynwald.

The first action plan focuses on the urgent need to improve the energy efficiency of buildings and transport, which together create around half of emissions.

New buildings could use low carbon sources of energy, such as solar thermal devices, electric heat pumps or biomass heating systems. Draft proofing and insulation will reduce energy bills and emissions in existing buildings.

More people will be encouraged to cycle or walk to work and school, and where this is not possible use public transport. A good telecoms infrastructure can enable people to work and shop from home, eliminating the need to travel. In the medium to long term greater use of electric cars or those powered by hydrogen fuel cells is envisaged.

The transition to a low emissions energy infrastructure will require substitution of fossil fuels with clean electricity. The first action plan seeks to increase electricity consumption at the expense of imported vehicle and heating fuel.

Subsequent action plans will require increased electricity generation capacity met from low emission sources. The current combined cycle gas turbines and diesel fired plant produce nearly 28 per cent of the island’s greenhouse gas emissions.

When they are decommissioned it is envisaged they will be replaced with low emission generation methods. This could involve using sustainably-sourced biomass as a fuel combined with carbon capture and storage.

The report says there the island has a wealth of indigenous renewable energy resources such as wind, solar and wave power but accepts their intermittent nature has led some to call into question the viability of harnessing them as means of generating electricity.

It says more electricity could be imported but the report insists this does not mean the island will simply be exporting its emissions elsewhere - if the UK is successful in its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation to near zero by 2050.

Enquiries are being made into a road traffic collision in which damage was caused to a white BMW car in Port Erin.

The collision occurred on Tuesday, June 14 between 11am and 1pm on Church Road, Port Erin, opposite the church.

Police believe the driver of the vehicle in question may have left a note on the windscreen, however that note has been lost.

PC Creer from Douglas Police Headquarters is urging the driver of the vehicle that collided with the BMW, or anybody who has any information, to get in touch.

Anyone who has any information should contact police headquarters on 631212.

Alternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.

Police are appealing for information following a hit and run car collision in Castletown this morning (Saturday).

The incident took place on Shore Road, near to College Green, between 9.45am and 10.45am.

A black Honda has been damaged.

If anybody has any information contact police on 631212.

Officers are investigating an assault which took place in the Close Rushen area of Castletown last night (Friday).

The Southern Neighbourhood Policing Team believe a female was assaulted by a male, and has sustained injuries as a result.

It took place at around 10pm.

If anybody has any information contact Castletown Station on 631212.

Firefighters at Kirk Michael Fire Station will be holding their annual coffee on Saturday, June 25.

The event will take place between 10am and midday.

It will feature all the usual attractions – including a bouncy castle, face painting, raffle, homemade produce, stalls, best cake cooked by a fireman, and a ride on the Ariel Ladder Appliance.