Author Archive: James Qualtrough

James Qualtrough (Jamesq) is the Founder and Editor of Isle News and is based on the Isle of Man. Isle News is a news site for the UK offshore jurisdictions of the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey.

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Appleby Reports Offshore M&A Activity for Q1 2013

Appleby Reports Offshore M&A Activity for Q1 2013

| May 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

While the first quarter of 2013 saw the lowest number of deals in the offshore region since Q1 2008, the offshore M&A market has performed better than the global average, according to a report released today by Appleby, one of the world’s largest providers of offshore legal, fiduciary and administration services. The latest edition of [...]

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Celton Manx to kick start olympian led martial arts workshops

Celton Manx to kick start olympian led martial arts workshops

| May 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

Four-time taekwondo Olympian Sarah Stevenson MBE is to lead two training workshops in the Island thanks to sponsorship from Celton Manx. The 2011 taekwondo world champion, now retired and working as a coach on UK Sport’s world class performance programme, will be accompanied by her personal trainer, Steve Jenkins. The first session will be held [...]

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Barclays Wealth and Investment Management in the Isle of Man makes Senior Appointment to Trust Business

Barclays Wealth and Investment Management in the Isle of Man makes Senior Appointment to Trust Business

| May 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

Barclays Wealth and Investment Management has appointed Paul Howland as Deputy Head of its Isle of Man trust businesses. A Barclays employee for 20 years, Manxman Paul has also joined the boards of the Barclays trust companies, Barclays Private Bank & Trust (Isle of Man) Limited and Barclays Wealth Trustees (Isle of Man) Limited. Paul [...]

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Noble’s Hospital marks launch of ‘Dignity in Care’ Patient Charter

Noble’s Hospital marks launch of ‘Dignity in Care’ Patient Charter

| May 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

As part of the Island’s celebrations for Nurses’ Day on 12 May 2013, Noble’s Hospital launched a new Patient Charter to highlight the importance of ‘Dignity in Care’ for patients and their families. The ‘Dignity in Care’ Patient Charter is part of a continued process of working in partnership with patients to improve care at [...]

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Children, Charities and Churches support IF Campaign

| May 21, 2013 | 0 Comments

Children, charities, church-goers and people from around the Island will be handing over hundreds of empty paper plates to Tynwald at 9.45am this morning (Tuesday 21st May) in a bid to get government support for the Enough Food IF campaign to end world hunger. The plates have been decorated with messages asking for the Isle [...]

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Sign up for Children’s Centre annual golf day

Sign up for Children’s Centre annual golf day

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

Teams are being urged to sign up The Children’s Centre’s annual charity golf day being held at Peel Golf Club on Friday June 14. Teams have a chance to win the coveted Golf Day Trophy – which was won last year by Barclays – and there will also be prizes for nearest to the pin [...]

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Flexibility & Innovation creates SEPA opportunities – Capital Treasury Services

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

We all want to pay as little as possible when making payments to other countries – we want to keep everything at ‘fair value’ to ensure that we, and indeed our clients, don’t suffer to the detriment of excessive charging. So, with the introduction of the Single Euro Payment Area this all began to look [...]

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Cricket icon to knock Isle of Man Sporting and Dining Club for six

Cricket icon to knock Isle of Man Sporting and Dining Club for six

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

One of the finest all-round players in modern cricket Sir Garfield Sobers will be visiting the Isle of Man to speak at a black tie dinner in June. The Isle of Man Sporting and Dining Club is pleased to announce a black tie dinner event with former West Indies cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers. The event, [...]

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Manx Gas triumphs at Gas industry’s awards for customer service

Manx Gas triumphs at Gas industry’s awards for customer service

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

Manx Gas has triumphed at the Gas industry’s prestigious annual ‘Oscars’ and walked away with a coveted award in relation to the natural gas conversion project which was completed in 2012. The award, for customer service, is a major accolade for Aidan Baglow who faced the greatest challenge of his career as Manx Gas conversion [...]

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Isle of Man Grand Challenge launched

| May 20, 2013 | 0 Comments

DO you have what it takes to be an agent of change? Do you have a viable ‘big idea’ to help solve some of the world’s big challenges? A group of high profile local organisations have joined forces with the prestigious Singularity University, based at NASA’s Research Park in Silicon Valley, to provide an opportunity [...]

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