Willy Brennan

Headteachers on island are short on funding. Coming up with good solutions to prevent poor behaviour and bullying situations is becoming increasingly difficult. Coupled with that, recruiting good, experienced staff is harder than ever (some of the best staff at secondary school level have been leaving the profession altogether to pursue better paid jobs in the private sector) and this has an inevitable impact on the quality of lessons and pastoral care. I also agree with Thommo that suspending a student often has little impact.

I agree with you. Mr Corrin should be applauded for trying to make a difference. When the students aren’t vaping in the toilets or eating there, they vandalise them. I’m not sure some parents have any idea how bad it is in some of the island’s schools or how powerless teachers are in trying to tackle the situation.

Can we find out?

Thanks for sharing this. It’s a very interesting read and adds a bit extra to what you see in the (very good) TV drama.

Have you tried HSBC? I had no problems getting a card with them. It was very efficient to set it up too.

All of the island’s 6th formers were told they had to go. The buses were paid for by the government. The students were told they were getting a lunch too, which consisted of…. a ham sandwich in a bag.

I’ve tried an eSIM on two iPhones in our house and it hasn’t worked.

Thanks for the information.

We had a lot of success using eSIMS travelling through Europe in the summer. So easy to use (on the Airalo app). I’m trying to see if I could also use an eSIM back here on the island. I’ve bought one for the Isle of Man, but I’m having no luck activating it. It needs to be connected to Manx Telecom - I can select that on Settings, but I’m not seeing any ‘bars’ and no 4G. Has anybody used one while living here and had any success or is it not possible?

Watching it live or the highlights each evening… it’s the three best weeks of the year. (I watched it mostly on Eurosport this year - fantastic coverage.)

And now it’s not leaving Gatwick to come back to the Isle of Man until 1939hrs…

Thank you for your advice.

My father-in-law has managed to pay off his mortgage. However, he has received some advice that he needs to instruct a solicitor to raise a ‘receipt to cancel’ with the bank. We are not quite sure what this ‘receipt to cancel’ refers to, and my father-in-law is quite reluctant to pay a solicitor for something he might be able to do himself. Can anybody help?

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We also had the same Barclaycard email today. Only got my Amex left now.