Glenn’s TT target for breast cancer charity
A PEEL man hopes to have raised more than £2,000 for charity after walking the TT Course last Sunday.Glenn Saunders, aged 36, was keen to raise money for Breakthrough Breast Cancer after his mum Carol...
View ArticleThe best of the best
STARS from Manx musicals over the past 30 years are being reunited for a unique fundraising spectacular – in aid of a very special little boy.The Best of the Best of Manx Musicals is being staged by...
View ArticleColdest April since 2001
LAST month was the coldest April since 2001, the latest statistics from the Met Office show.It comes after the previous month was the warmest March on record.The Met Office, based at Ronaldsway, saw a...
View ArticleHoroscopes – May 1
Aries (March 21 - April 20) Chat and charm dominate this week. With fast-talking Mercury speeding along communications, things can happen fast. That is great, except it can be confusing when everyone...
View ArticlePaul Kerruish has high hopes for new law firm
A NEW specialist, private client and commercial law firm has been launched by advocate Paul Kerruish, called Kerruish Law and Trust which, together with its subsidiaries, will offer clients a range of...
View ArticleNI holiday scheme is working, says Treasury minister
TREASURY Minister Eddie Teare says he is pleased with the response from the island’s business community to a new scheme aimed at boosting employment and economic growth.But Mr Teare said he is...
View ArticleYoung designers show off skills
THE results are in after around 1,700 creative school children entered this year’s Isle of Man Newspapers Design an Ad competition. The winners of the contest, open to youngsters in school years 2 -...
View ArticleTynwald committee to probe policy on pre-school education
A TYNWALD committee is to investigate the government’s policy on pre-school education.The move follows a call by 10 Tynwald members who have asked the Social Affairs Policy Review Committee to examine...
View ArticleMichael MHK calls public meeting over housing plan
MICHAEL MHK Alf Cannan is disappointed that developer Heritage Homes has submitted a further plan to build homes on land at the rear of Michael School.Heritage Homes has applied (12/00573/B) to the...
View ArticleCRINGLE: Ringing the changes
WE who work in Broadcasting House have been issued with new telephones. The others are now wherever it is that old telephones go to die.The new ones have a lot more buttons than the old ones and their...
View ArticleCaravan laws set to change
THE Department of Infrastructure hopes to change the law to control the use of caravans or ‘undesirable vehicles’ on the island’s roads.In response to a question from Alex Downie MLC in the Legislative...
View ArticleManx Gas announce price hike
GAS prices are going up.Manx Gas has announced that natural gas tariffs will increase by 8.2 per cent and the cost of Liquid Petroleum Gas will rise by 6.4 per cent from Thursday next week.It will cost...
View ArticleFish should be from traceable source
NEW regulations regarding the sale of fish may mean processors, wholesalers, restaurants and other outlets are unwittingly committing an offence. As of April 1, Sea-Fisheries (Registration of Fish...
View ArticleAccident verdict for man who died in house fire
AN ACCIDENTAL death verdict has been recorded on a 75-year-old man who died after a fire at his home at Larivane Meadows in Andreas earlier this year.Retired postman Edward Walter Corlett, known as...
View ArticlePAUL SPELLER: The more things change
A LOT can change in 20 years.That’s certainly the case in the Manx political scene.When I first started covering the House of Keys and Tynwald (it was a while before I was sent to the geriatric ward of...
View ArticleDesign an Ad supplement in tomorrow’s Manx Independent
Tomorrow’s Manx Independent has a 12-page supplement featuring all the winners in our Design an Ad competition, in which we asked schoolchildren to come up with advertising ideas for real Manx...
View ArticleWi-Manx free event
ISLE of Man-based communications and network solutions provider Wi-Manx is hosting a free seminar for businesses regarding Voice over IP business phone systems.The event takes place at the Claremont...
View ArticleEmergency road closure at Tholt-y-Will
AN emergency road closure has been granted at Tholt-y-Will Road, Sulby, tomorrow (Thursday), from 10am.It will be closed from the Bungalow (Mountain Road) to the junction with the Claddagh Road,...
View ArticleEnvestors to be launched here
ENVESTORS, the award-winning private investor network providing investors with opportunities to meet dynamic companies in need of growth and expansion capital, has extended its service by launching in...
View ArticleIn today’s Manx Independent
The Manx Independent is in shops this morning.In today’s Indy, there’s a dismayed reaction to news that gas prices are going up.The family of the student knocked down and killed by a police car give...
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