Hotel sees the lights
The Sefton Hotel has entered into a partnership with the restaurant group Harbour Lights. The agreement will see the hotel’s Gallery restaurant re-branded ‘Harbour Lights at the Sefton’ with effect...
View ArticleFive years in jail for a ‘sickening’ assault
A Pulrose man has been jailed for five years after what was described in court as an assault causing ‘sickening’ injuries.James Wright, aged 40, of Hazel Crescent, pleaded guilty to causing grievous...
View ArticleSnaefell railway works get Three Legs makeover
Some 46,000 mini-Three Legs of Man will adorn Snaefell summit later this year.Concrete slabs, specially manufactured by Jurby-based BPD Ltd and each featuring 266 little triskelia, are being laid at...
View ArticleExaminer comment: Challenge to LegCo candidates
The Isle of Man Examiner’s comment column this week calls upon candidates for Legislative Council to let the people of the Isle of Man, rather than just MHKs, know what their priorities are.MHKs get to...
View ArticleDental charges to rise if Tynwald agrees
The cost of going to an NHS dentist is to go up if Tynwald agrees.The increase is between 10 and 12 per cent. In addition to the increase in charges, dental examinations, where teeth are checked and no...
View Article‘None of above’ win LegCo poll
The votes are in and they have been counted in our LegCo public poll.And we have a clear, and perhaps not unexpected, winner: none of the candidates!The Isle of Man Examiner last week gave the public...
View ArticlePolitician Alan Johnson to speak at island event
A politician many in the UK’s Labour Party wish was their leader is to speak in the Isle of Man later in the year.Former Home Secretary Alan Johnson quit frontline politics in 2011 following problems...
View ArticleTackling long-term and youth joblessness
Measures to improve skills and tackle unemployment are paying dividends.That’s the message from Economic Development Minister Laurence Skelly who says his department has a simple focus. ‘It’s always...
View ArticleElectricity bills may have to keep going up, says Chief Minister
Electricity tariffs will probably have to rise each year to fund the Manx Utilities Authority and service its debts, Chief Minister Allan Bell admitted.Electricity tariffs are to rise by an inflation...
View ArticleSpotlight on demand for engineers
The Isle of Man’s manufacturing sector, supported by the Department of Economic Development, is encouraging residents interested in a career in engineering to attend the 2015 Engineering and...
View ArticleNew name proposed for farm subsidy scheme
Tynwald support will be sought next week for major changes to the Countryside Care Scheme which will see it rebranded as the Agricultural Development Scheme.But the Department of Environment, Food and...
View ArticleGovernment departments will pay £5.8m in loan interest
Government departments will have to pay interest on their capital borrowings totalling £5.8m this coming financial year and £9m the next.The figures were released by Treasury Minister Eddie Teare in a...
View ArticleRamsey transport interchange plan hits the buffers
Controversial plans to create a transport ‘interchange’ in Ramsey have been thrown out.The Council of Ministers supported the recommendation of planning inspector Stephen Amos to reject the scheme on...
View ArticleSuspicious van appeal
Police investigating the recent spate of burglaries have sent letters to residents in Onchan asking for help in identifying a suspicious van.It says that the occupants of the van appeared to be acting...
View ArticleMurder trial set to begin on Monday
The trial of Ian Anthony Anderson will now start on Monday March 16.Mr Anderson, aged 46, formerly of Queen Street, Castletown, has denied a charge of murder in relation to Neil Roberts, aged 60, of...
View ArticlePupils spring into spring!
Pupils at Manor Park School, Pulrose, are springing into spring!This week the school has organised a week of fitness activities in school, a whole-school visit to the nearby National Sports Centre in...
View ArticleVictim’s anger at burglary ordeal
A victim of the unprecedented spate of burglaries says she had been left angry by the ordeal – and has no doubt the culprits are professional criminals.The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, said...
View ArticleCraft fair for diabetic group
Manx Craft Guild will hold a spring craft fair at St Ninian’s Lower School, Bemahague, on Saturday (March 14), from 10.30am until 3.30pm.There will also be entertainment on the day from Onchan...
View ArticleClaire wins £17,000 new car in raffle for Hospice
A Port St Mary woman said she was ‘thrilled’ to win a new car worth £17,000 in a fundraising raffle.Claire Jennings scooped the top prize in the ‘Juke of Hospice’ prize draw, which was limited to 1,000...
View ArticlePupils pedal for smoothie snack
Fairtrade bananas, honey, ice cubes, fresh milk and the leg power of one volunteer.That’s the list of ingredients that goes into a banana smoothie using a pedal-powered contraption which entertained...
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