Isle of Man News

The battle for custody of electric racing has taken a new turn, with Isle of Man government and TTXGP organisers issuing conflicting statements as to the reasons for the split.

Home Strategic, the Isle of Man’s fastest growing marketing agency, has unveiled ambitious plans with the launch of a dedicated PR & Web division which sees the appointment of three new high-profile directors.

The division will be known as Home PR & Web, with former regional and national newspaper journalist Les Able, who has worked in financial PR for 10 years, heading up media and consumer relations. James Qualtrough, who joins from Bradford & Bingley International in Douglas where he was assistant marketing manager, will focus on the growing demand for new media relations.

Bob Jones, who ran his own Peel-based web design business Satsu Ltd with major clients from both on and off the Island, becomes director of new media design.

“Having developed a reputation built on innovative and general trend bucking, our main challenge in setting up this new division was how to do it differently and not just follow the crowd,” said Steve Wicks, joint managing director of Home Strategic.

He added: “The first answer was to find a team of people who also liked to question conventional thought and try different ideas. Les, James and Bob bring together not only a wealth of experience but an exciting balance of new and traditional online and offline media expertise that meet head-on the challenges of the 21st century, ensuring we deliver balanced strategies that deliver real results for clients.”

Rebecca Flint, 14 a ' aka Beckii Cruel a ' is an internet hit among anime fans and her debut album is tipped to top Japanese charts Rebecca Flint, 14, performing as Beckii Cruel Like most 14-year-old girls, Rebecca Flint likes to dress up and dance.

One of Britain's top stand-up comics says he is looking forward to mixing with bike fans and watching racing at the Isle of Man TT this year.

The death of Susan Morgan, a British novelist who wrote under the names Zoe Barnes and Sue Dyson, has been declared a suicide, officials said.

The Island's largest corporate financial adviser has helped Save the Children reach its 90,000 fundraising target.

The 52-year-old pioneer of the "chick-lit" genre, who wrote 45 novels including Wedding Belles, Just Married, and Return to Sender, and also used the name Sue Dyson, took a lethal dose of painkillers while on holiday in the Isle of Man.

A prison officer from the Isle of Man is planning to scale the highest mountain in Africa to raise money to help beat breast cancer.

Since its launch the route has provided a crucial business and leisure link between the Isle of Man and the UK capital; in particular connecting the two financial service centres on the Island and in the City.

The High Court has given the green light for taxes to be applied retrospectively in what is seen as a controversial, landmark decision.

A MEMORIAL service for Noel Jones, the former Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, will be held at 7.30pm on Tuesday, February 2, in St German's Cathedral, Peel.

Isle of Man-based Motorsport Mundial has signed a contract with major Middle-East broadcaster Al Jazeera, for it's flag-ship weekly programme of the same name.

Press Release: Following the success of the inaugural clean emissions motorcycle race on the Isle of Man in 2009, the Isle of Man Government Department of Tourism and Leisure, the promoter of the TT Races, today confirmed that a clean emissions race would again take place on the TT Mountain Course, as part of the 2010 TT Races programme.

TTXGP founder Azhar Hussain has spoken of his bafflement and bitter disappointment after the Isle of Man launched its own electric TT race and severed arrangements with TTXGP.

The High Court is to rule on an attempt to stop the taxman clawing back millions from UK residents who put their money in tax-haven offshore trusts.

From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! Tuesday, January 26, 2010 Map of the British Isles with the Isle of Man highlighted in blue.

The Isle of Man Ship Registry has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Toko Maruraku Transportation Co.

THE Isle of Man Wind Orchestra will be hosting a weekend of wind band music from January 29 to 31 at St John's School.

'A SAD day for the Isle of Man'. That was how Speaker Steve Rodan summed up feelings in a grim-faced Tynwald after Chief Minister Tony Brown announced that his meeting with UK Health Secretary Andy Burnham had secured no change of heart over the reciprocal health deal.

IT'S D-Day for the future of healthcare for Isle of Man residents and visitors to our shores.