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Doubt it, China is getting expensive, more likely Bangladesh or Vietnam.

I used to like Regatta Clothing, it was cheap and fairly good quality, You could buy a pair of lightweight trousers in Newsons for around a third of the price you would pay for say a pair of Mountain Equipment Trousers. Unfortunately, they now cost about the same.

I see Venture Outdoors (Newsons) shop is up for rent or sale. https://www.chrystals.co.im/commercial/commercial-lettings/property/11569500-strand-street-douglas I think they were a bit daft, moving away from their core business and going into an market to compete with the likes of Millets and Mountain Warehouse.

Always thought the inside of the Villa Arcade should be just a food venue, with general seating in the central area and lots of different food establishments in the various retail outlets, some permanent, some run as pop-ups.

Is this going to be just a seasonal restaurant, nobody is going to want to sit outside eating their steak and chips in the middle of winter and there isn't much seating inside.

Looking at the planning application, which is available online for all to see, there does not appear to be any new walls, glass, brick or other type, it's just an external seating area, just like the café next door has. There's nothing stopping pedestrians walking between the tables under the cover of the colonnade.

I see the Strand Street Post Office is turning into a convenience store, the foreign exchange counter has now gone, and you can now buy your lottery tickets and basic expensive groceries as well as buying a stamp or two.. Seems to be undermanned as well, three people behind the post counter, one working, one said she couldn't help as she was new and didn't know anything and the third had to leave the postal counter to go to serve someone at the shop counter, then realised she didn't know how to operate the lottery machine.

So is Shoprite buying Sainsbury's stuff at retail price, hence the reason for the large price jump, or do they get it at a wholesale price, which makes their inflated pricing even worse?

How many Callister bashers (I'm neither for or against him), will pop along to his surgery and actually discuss the comments they have made in this thread directly face to face?

They have barriers and No entry signs at low level now. I was parked on Dukes Road on Friday afternoon and within five minutes there must have been half a dozen cars drive past going the wrong way.

Wrong, planning has been approved for the new Scoreboard, they just need to find the money to build it now.

Duplicate post - sorry.

It's obviously being taken very seriously by the Manx public, as their Facebook Group has grown to five members, but no new members in the past week.

I checked their website and didn't see anything on there.

There was a group of around twelve people waiting for the 12:23 at Peel Town Hall yesterday (Sunday), the bus never turned up.

I see there's an R Plate rider in the group, do they have to display R plates front and rear? Hopefully he kept his speed down below 50mph over the mountain too.

I agree, the old Park Road site needs something doing with it, same with the old prison site.

Some might, others possibly won't, which will make re-developing the site that much more difficult. I doubt if the Scout Group would find it easy to find an alternative venue.

Aren't a lot of the properties around this Demesne Road 're-development area' privately owned? What if the owners don't want to sell up, are they going to be compulsory purchased, does that happen on the Island?

I hope it goes ahead and is an amazing success. It is a shame that temporary things like this need planning, I would have thought it could all have been dealt with by the Licencing Bench as I understand both Police and Fire Service are involved in licencing? Not a particular fan of 1886, I'm probably outside their intended catchment, but I have been in twice, once after a meal for a drink. There was a guy on stage playing guitar and singing (who was very good) but the sound levels were so high you couldn't have a conversation with those sitting next to you, we left after one drink because of this. My second visit was for lunch in an almost completely empty restaurant area, the food however was very good.

I'm sure the owners of the Shore Hotel will appreciate the defences that are being put in place in that area, especially with the considerable amount of money they are investing into the property.

I sent a parcel with Hermes to the USA a while ago. They lost it, so I told them as I had taken out the insurance offered, please pay me the value of the contents which was around £350.00. They managed to find the parcel.

There was a post on Facebook yesterday from the mother of an eight-year-old who had to be flown off the Island by helicopter.

In the latest plans for the Duke Street Site, all the underground parking has gone and has been replaced by Storage rooms, so it looks like it now has zero parking. The company building it has apparently run out of money, so it might just be a just a frame for a while.

Wasn't John Moore convicted of VAT fraud? That would mean a company was involved and if the house and land are owned by the company which committed the fraud, then Customs and Excise might have applied to the court for the companies assets to be seized and sold to recover the debt.