Cav is Sports Personality of the Year
MARK Cavendish is the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.He finished in first place ahead of Darren Clarke in second and Mo Farah who was third,A clearly emotional Cavendish said he was 'absolutely...
View ArticlePolice probe after body found
A MAN'S body was found in the area the yacht club in Peel on Saturday afternoon.The discovery was made at about 4.45pm.Part of the promenade was cordoned off while investigations were carried...
View ArticleChildren act out Nativity story
A CHRISTMAS celebration in words and carols was held at St Columba’s Catholic Church in Port Erin.The event took place on Sunday and saw the Christmas story being acted out.Those who attended were also...
View ArticleFashion show’s £2,000 boost for good causes
A FASHION show organised by Britannia International and M&Co has raised a total of £2,000.The event was held at Centre 21 in Douglas and saw models aged from three to 60 years-old taking to the...
View ArticleA perfect present
THANKS to his wife Elaine and a course of treatment they had been previously been unaware of, civil servant Bryan Masterson is a man with a new lease of life.The 53-year-old had been on the waiting...
View ArticleMerry Christmas from Isle of Man Newspapers
We are grateful for all your support over the past year and hope that you will continue to come back to the Isle of Man’s leading news website.Please remember this week’s Manx Independent is still in...
View ArticleRailways are on track for renewal
A MAJOR project to renew more than 50 per cent of the Snaefell Mountain Railway’s tracks is ‘progressing well’.That’s according to Community, Culture and Leisure Minister Tim Crookall MHK.The £3m...
View ArticleAction on sick leave must be fair
UNION boss Steve Salter has welcomed news that action is to be taken against levels of sickness absence in government.Chief Minister Allan Bell MHK last week described an alarming rise in the level of...
View ArticleIt’s solar, so good for Howard
STARGAZERS are to get a second chance to see a presentation about the Manx Night Sky.Chairman of the Isle of Man Astronomical Society Howard Parkin gave his first Manx Night Sky presentation at the...
View ArticlePolice name man found dead in Peel
Police have released the name of the man found dead in Peel on Christmas Eve.He was Philip John Brown, 57, of Peel.Mr Brown's body was found in the area of Peel Yacht Club at 4.45pm on Christmas...
View ArticleNew Year’s honours for three residents
THREE Isle of Man residents have made the Queen’s 2012 New Year’s Honours list.Former Strix boss Eddie Davies, from Ballasalla, is included in the New Year’s Honours list for 2012. He has received a...
View ArticleThe Manx Christmas of yesteryear
We’d still be looking forward to big day in the pastSo, the dust settles on the Christmas festivities of 2011. In a rapidly-changing modern digital world it can sometimes feel like each generation (in...
View ArticleChilly weather for 2012 dips
NEW Year’s Day dippers should expect ‘quite chilly’ weather conditions, according to the Met Office.The forecast for Sunday is for temperatures of 6C combined with a strong westerly wind.It will be...
View ArticleLiberal Vannin draws up agenda to make housing affordable
THE Liberal Vannin Party is launching a campaign to make housing more accessible, affordable and sustainable.The party believes four new measures would go a long way in ‘correcting the imbalance in the...
View ArticleIs the international pressure off?
COULD the international pressure on the island be easing at last?Over the past five years, our financial services, tax rates and Customs deal have come under intense scrutiny from beyond our...
View ArticleHappy New Year to our readers
IOMTODAY would like to wish all its readers a Happy New Year. We hope that you celebrated the start of 2012 safely and are looking forward to the year ahead. Don’t forget, the New Year’s Day dips are...
View ArticleKiss is hit for Beckii
MOMENTUM continues to grow for the first music release from budding teenage pop starlet Beckii Cruel, known by her school friends and family as Rebecca Flint.Her single U Can’t Kiss Me has experienced...
View ArticleUK going Bee Gees crazy
THE British Isles seem to be going a bit Bee Gees crazy, in a wave of nostalgia that has celebrated the Isle of Man trio.A TV special, an increase in radio play and a new greatest hits collection has...
View ArticleOverdone it on the mince pies?
OVERINDULGENCE, it seems, is part and parcel of the festivities even though we know we’ll pay for it later.And it’s not just our expanding waist bands that tell the tale – indigestion is, for many of...
View ArticleDippy fun at Laxey
Whatever the weather or sea temperature for that matter, a growing number of people feel compelled to hurl themselves into the icy waves around the island on New Year’s Day.We caught up with those...
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