Roger Mexico

Technically it won't because the number of spoilt papers (and why they qualify as spoilt) are reported as part of the result.

Sweet Jesus. There is rather good reason why people aren't walking out to the Tower of Refuge "last night, or this morning, or tomorrow morning or night". That because there is this thing call "the sea" in the way. So walking there isn't possible (unless you actually are sweet Jesus). There are only a few times in the year when the tide is low enough for people to be able to walk out to Conister Rock and back safely without (at best) getting wet. Even that may not be possible some years because of weather, atmospheric pressure and so on. So rather than risk people getting stranded or swamped or drowned because they chose the wrong date or stayed too long or whatever, it's become an organised event that can be closely supervised and cancelled if circumstances change. And of course that has attracted all the peripheral activity that organised events usually do on the Isle of Man: commercial sponsors, people doing things in costume, people with dogs, charity sponsorship etc etc. There's probably a raffle. But basically it's because of tides.

According to this: SARCs (sexual assault referral centres) are specialist medical and forensic services for anyone who has been raped or sexually assaulted. They are designed to be comfortable and multi-functional, providing private space for interviews and forensic examinations, and some may also offer sexual health and counselling services. Their services are free of charge and provided to women, men, young people and children. So more than just an office, but not really requiring anything specialist such as labs for example (samples will be sent to specialist laboratories).

225 m from Hango Hill to the central tower, but that's still not a visibility you'd want to risk in any aircraft. If it's drifting in off the sea there's added unpredictability as well - even though it may look clear on the other side of the Airport buildings. According to the website, Birmingham, Manchester, City and Dublin flights were all cancelled.

Google seems to bring up airport.im first for me and that works. But of course Google's list order will always be a bit behind the times because it uses (among other things) popularity based on past usage and if a new URL is used (as happens when they change timetables) it will take time for that to work its way up the rankings.

It seems to be mainly about reporting: The local authority says the dedicated number was a suggestion from a resident and those calling need to provide the date, time, and location of the incident, and whether or not it’s a recurrent problem. [...] Where information is provided the commissioners will investigate reports and take action if it has clear evidence that identifies them. Those with information can call the hotline on 264808 or email the commissioners via admin@garff.im. but they do add: "If fouling is reported we will attend and remove the faeces as soon as possible." which suggests that they'll get their usual staff to sort it out as and when they're next available.

It's because they haven't updated the maps. The 4R ran once a day at 9:55 from Douglas to Port Erin, but via Foxdale, the Patrick Road and the Round Table. On weekends and bank holidays only. From mid-June to early September. It's not being run this year, it seems it didn't build up much usage, can't imagine why. Similarly the 8 (Peel to Castletown, 2 a day), the 8R (Peel to Port Erin, one a day) and the 28 (PE to Sound via PSM and Cregneash 7 a day) have all been scrapped. All these were also weekend only and the same high summer only (17 June to 3 September last year)

Of course not. It will have been "NEW IMPROVED RECIPE".

Oddly enough that can't be used in "pork sausages" nor can offal. But it can be used in "sausages" according to the article I linked to. Pork sausages appear to be different from sausages made from pork (and other stuff).

But that's not what 'meat' means in this context. That will include fat, collagen and so on (though there are limits on how much). The non-meat percentage will represent cereal and other fillers plus of course seasonings and flavourings.

Presumably this refers to the latest media conference that Cobb gave when he stated that, even though they're not buying new multi-million pound machines, they still have to do an upgrade that will make things slower. The good news is that passenger numbers are 5% down on last year, so there are fewer people to check.

What really strikes you about all that is how convoluted it is. An Aer Lingus employee has some concerns over the authenticity of a letter signed by a couple of Manx civil servants. Does he ring them up to check? Of course not. He rings someone in another airline who contacts someone he knows who is an MHK who speaks to the Chief Minister (who appears to do nothing) and the Minister who then contacts the Aer Lingus guy and tells him to .... contact the civil servants to validate it.

To be fair, it's more 'music that has marked by life' rather than what she thinks are the best pieces of music in the universe as she admits herself. But as you and Declan pointed out, these lists always give the impression that they are carefully curated to give the right impression.

The answer's in the column: https://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/entertainment/the-song-that-always-stops-sarah-maltby-mhk-in-her-tracks-685726 (no peeking) IOM Newspapers have left comments open. That's bound to end well.

I don't really know. I have raised this several times with people at various meetings over the years and never got a sensible answer or indeed any answer at all. There's some information and links on this Reddit thread about how a transport authority can make its data usable and sign up to be a "Transit Partner": https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleMaps/comments/175bxq2/how_to_add_my_citys_public_transport_routestimes/ and I suspect it's simple enough - an awful lot of places seem to manage it. Presumably it's felt that doing this will only benefit the transport users rather than the bureaucrats. It will also need a commitment to keeping things up to date and we know that while (sometimes) effort and (always) expense will go into new things, maintenance and keeping things going is frowned on by those in charge.

As mentioned on Manx Forums ten days ago. 3FM need to keep up with the more reliable media sources on the Island.

There's a copy of the print timetable online: https://www.iombusandrail.im/media/2923/8624-bus-timetable-summer-2024-final.pdf So you can use that when they get themselves sorted out.

Well I never knew it existed. It's quite sketchy isn't it? Effectively only two pages long.

It's a mess isn't it? The links are the wrong way round for Mon-Sat and they've simply forgotten to put up page 4 of the PSM to Nobles timetable. You can probably rely on using the old times, but it's still inconvenient. Hopefully the actual times within are correct and it's just an easily-fixed website problem

According to IOM Newspapers: [...] the scheme was unanimously rejected by members of the Isle of Man Government’s planning committee despite the festival being recommended for approval by the planning officer. Among their concerns was the impact the event would have on residents living near the church as well as traffic and the fact there were to be similar facilities at the official Isle of Man TT Grandstand. Chairman of the Manx Food Market Traders’ Association said the group was now working with the Department of Enterprise and looking at ways to ‘reformat and restructure’ the event. (my bold)

I don't know what everyone is getting upset about. Minister Johnston has assured us that they are drawing up a Ten-Year Plan Strategy for hospitality. What more do people want?

I suppose it's worked to raise the topic though and get government to look at ways in which such help can be provided, especially to the vulnerable, possibly even more than a parliamentary motion would do. It's possible that attempts to tackle the problem in more administrative ways have come up against the usual civil service passive resistance and buck-passing, so the threat of a legal route might be useful to push things along. On a related theme, such products are available from the Food Bank (as are toiletries) and I believe are very gratefully received by those women and girls that need them. But of course there will be many just scraping by who don't need the Food Bank generally, but still have problems with access.

I don't know. The fact she described the absence of a covenant (not that H&B had much choice in the matter) as "great news" suggest she is in favour of it being a pub if that is a viable option. Her words can certainly be interpreted that way, though as you say, it's not something to get worked up about either way. Ms Craine has had quite enough problems already with people insisting they know exactly what she means (and are very offended by it) based on selective quotation and extremely stretched (mis)interpretation. Of course no covenant will also mean the building could be used for other purposes that might need a licence, such as a restaurant.

To get back to the Roundhouse, Chris Thomas had a pointed question in Keys today[1]: What vehicular access is permitted and available using the roads around Noble's Hospital to a) the hospital itself b) staff accommodation c) primary care facilities d) Braddan Roundhouse and e) other premises. The sound clip in the Manx Radio piece sounds weird because it just has Hooper repeating himself, but the context is that he was just reading out the same response to completely different questions from Thomas, Christian and Edge (already working as a team, I see). The full exchange is here: https://www.tynwald.org.im/playaudio?file=/business/listen/AgainFiles/O-202401-1363.mp3 It's quite clear from all that that Hooper doesn't really have CoMin backing for his hissy fit, but as ever Cannan is afraid to discomfort any top civil servants in any way and doesn't have the guts to intervene. It's also obvious that the legal advice is against the DHSC, but again they won't say so. It suggests that if they do go to Court the DHSC will lose expensively, possibly with Braddan and its tenants being able to claim all sorts of damages. Not that that would worry the DHSC bosses as it wouldn't be their money - as we've seen so often in the past.. [1] He had originally put a similar one down for answer by Cannan, but Cannan, with his usual bravery, insisted Hooper take the bullet.

But that's going to be a fairly unusual situation, at most there will only be one or two coaches. There's not really the accommodation capacity on the Island to take many coaches and a lot of hotels will only want to take them in the 'shoulder' seasons. So you shouldn't increase the size of a boat so as to take more coaches.