Isle News, 30 September 2009 – Manx Telecom recently completed the incorporation of the entire Department of Education’s communications infrastructure into the Connect Mann network. The £1million project, which began in 2008, was completed mostly during school holidays and at weekends and means that schools and education establishments across the Island can now take full [...]
Isle News, 30 September 2009 – The Department of Transport is delighted to announce the completion of the major highway improvement scheme at Johnny Watterson’s Lane, which will be reopened to traffic by Friday 2nd October 2009.
The construction of this scheme started on site on the 3rd August 09 and has been completed in just [...]
Isle News, 30 September 2009 – This year’s Lloyds TSB Isle of Man Children’s Centre Adventure Team Challenge has raised thousands of pounds for the Children’s Centre.
The event, which took place on Saturday 19 September 2009, saw 13 corporate teams compete in a day of unique physical and mental challenges.
A total of £6 000 [...]
Isle News, 30 September 2009 – Initial findings show that shopiom.com (www.shopiom.com), the new online shopping directory designed to help Isle of Man retailers and consumers, is a hit with shoppers.
In the first three weeks since launch, nearly 3,500 unique visitors logged onto the site, and figures suggest that most have been as a direct [...]
Isle News, 30 September 2009 – The Sulby River mouth at Ramsey has long been an important harbour as well as containing some intertidal estuary habitats which are very limited in extent elsewhere on the Island. The Department of Transport is in the process of consulting on options to create a marina in Ramsey Harbour [...]
Isle News, 29 September 2009 – Pictured, a beautiful early evening on the coastal waters around the Isle of Man. Perfect conditions for Manx Telecom to take customers out on the Pride of Mann II, the Sailing for the Disabled yacht, as part of the Company’s continued sponsorship of the much loved vessel.
Manx Telecom has [...]
Isle News, 29 September 2009 – A public consultation was held this week into the options available for the development of a marina facility in Ramsey.
On the 22nd and 23rd September Department staff and consultants were present at Ramsey Town Hall to speak to the public about the options and gather their views on the [...]
Isle News, 25 September 2009 – King William’s College pupils have had a once in a lifetime experience this week, swapping their classrooms for lessons inside a space capsule!
Isle of Man-based company, Excalibur Almaz, has brought the spacecraft over from the recent Moscow Air Show and put it on display at the Castletown school. It [...]
Isle News, 25 September 2009 – King William’s College will hold a screening of silent movies tomorrow (Friday 25th September 2009), as part of its Organ Festival weekend.
Two films will shown in the Chapel of St Thomas – ‘The Boat’ starring Buster Keaton and the ‘Big Business’ starring Laurel and Hardy – and will be [...]
Isle News, 24 September 2009 – The official review of the record-breaking 2009 event has topped the sports chart of leading online store Amazon, beating competition from the Complete Rocky collection, Manchester United Champions League Final Review and the latest instalment of the WWE Wrestlemania phenomenon.
This year, for the first time ever, the TT review [...]
