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Just listened to the female caller (Lucy?) on the show...she absolutely runs rings round Stu Peters and totally shows up his lack of knowledge and ignorance on the subject ! Think he is gonna learn a tough lesson here about going all in on a subject without having done his research.

Dont mind Christy, Beth etc too much...only slight criticism is the amount of superlatives used for literally anything....every single story or discussion is usually preceded and or followed by 'Oooh that is soooooooooo lovely, its amazing, it really is fantastic'...even relatively mundane ordinary things...but aside from that...dont mind listening to them. The instant switch off however still remains Brindley. His consistent ability to annoy is a real talent. I don't make it through a sentence before the the channel is hastily changed.

Not so long ago MR were heralding their latest big launch.....Smart Local Focus. As far as I could tell it was Manx Radios rival to Google with the unique selling point that businesses who registered also got mentioned on the radio occasionally. They now seem to not mention it at all any more after hammering the jingles for a few months. Anyone (Stu?) know whose idea this was, how much was spent on it and what has happened to it now ? Seem to get 'Oops something went wrong' on most pages on it now...…!

Heard some details of the 'exciting' changes coming in the next couple of weeks. Live on air from 5am (not interested), Stu Peters moved to graveyard shift, Andy Wint taking over lunch time slot....and Brindley continues to be in charge of programming/scheduling etc.........bye bye Manx Radio.

Sounds like a challenge to all members of the public and all visitors....whoever gets interviewed over the TT period...or if you see any roving reporters anywhere you have to say 'I love Manx Radio TT' as loudly and as often as possible....together we can try to get it mentioned as much as possible..that will pi55 the Gov idiots off !

Do you mean like Mr Lakeman from the IOM, who lost two sons from taking 'ecstacy' tablets and now has campaigned as far as the house of commons for these drugs to be legalised so it's safer for young people (who will ALWAYS experiment) to take them. I tend to listen to the views of people with first hand experience of these issues such as Mr Lakeman rather than silly out of touch racist twats....

Macbeths ffs !

As posted above....the powers that be treat/pay their staff terribly at H&B...resulting in the expected problems with staff retention and therefore serious issues with quality and consistency of food and drink. If you want a prime example check out the Woodbourne...a CAMRA pub of the year winner turned into a shithole in less than three years...that takes some talent !

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40980994 Is there anyone left at the White House? Sure everything is still going really great/fantastic etc etc etc..

Think there tends to be a minority of local knobheads who use the event as an all day drinking session and start being twats by tea time coz they can't handle their ale. So sounds like cops have used this as an excuse to try and prevent having to deal with them....fair on everyone else? No probably not.... But there you go.

Yep I stopped counting at four mentions of her book... If the motives were genuine sympathy towards the grenfell victims and anger at failures by certain parties... The book about summerland would not be mentioned...shameful.....

Found this rather uncomfortable reading to be honest.... How many times does it mention she has a book out ??!!

On a slightly separate note, I just had MR on in the car on way to work. The DJ was again mentioning 'Smart Local Focus'....which I had kind of forgot about ! So it was launched with the strap line 'The worlds first internet search engine.....powered by radio'...or words to that effect. Does anyone actually know what the hell that means ??!! Is that not akin to saying 'Well, this is very exciting news, we have a really unique product...we have the worlds first supercar.....powered by custard !! So aware I was perhaps being cynical, I thought fair enough I should at least visit the site and have a look around. I randomnly picked Restaurants in the Douglas area (after having to scroll down through the drop down lists because annoyingly you cant type free format in the field for what you are looking for !) and hit search I got ONE result back...Fryers Fish and Chips in Onchan. So arguably a takeaway and not a restaurant. There is a long list of other businesses with phone numbers underneath, who presumably have not signed up to localfocus...but you cannot click on them, cannot see any further information etc. Which basically means certainly for restaurants, any sane minded person is going to use Google/TripAdvisor to find out what they need. I then thought that only one restaurant signing up in the three months plus since this was launched seemed pretty poor, so I searched for all entries across the board. Unless I am mistaken it would seem there is only 12 businesses in the whole island who have signed up to this ? Is anyone able to provide any further information/feedback on this ? Has anyone ever actually used it or benefitted from these brilliant offers that MR keep saying are available ? How much has been spent on it ? I really don't get it im afraid !

Travel ban could be useful....keep Trump and people like him out !!

Yep each new situation that occurs seems to spawn even more social media nutters...Think the words from Tony Mepham (who unlike most commenters was directly involved in helping to resolve the situation) were of merit......'It was not a nice situation for the kids....But NOBODY was to blame' !! Well said Tony !