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Isle of Man News, Articles and InformationUnsentimental journeyTHE AUNTS ALWAYS said Roberta inherited her acting talent from Nanny Mary, who turned on the "Irish rain" whenever she felt her back bumping against the wall, tugging heartstrings with a piteous woe-is-me sob story. She "rained" on her outraged daughters - who eventually became waterproof - and on a succession of judges, more easily fooled into pitying the hard-done-by old dear in the dock scraping along any way she could.In reality, this daughter of Irish tinkers, born with the gift of the gab in 1900, was smoking by nine, tattooed by 14, and had the first of her seven children at 18, marrying the father seven months later. By the mid-1920s she'd already spent three months in Holloway, though afterwards she claimed to have been in hospital. ("I've never been to a hospital with iron bars before," cracked her second eldest, Aunt Doll.) .Aaron Spelling (1923 - 2006)Danny Thomas, Spelling formed Thomas/Spelling Prods., which produced the 1967 Western series "The Guns of Will Sonnet" and "The Mod Squad," starring Michael Cole, Peggy Lipton and Clarence Williams III. During its five year run, "The Mod Squad" earned six Emmy nominations, including one for outstanding dramatic series of the 1969-70 season. In 1971, Spelling formed a partnership with Leonard Goldberg, and together they entered a phenomenally prolific period, producing many top-rated TV series, including "Charlie's Angels," "Starsky and Hutch," "Fantasy Island," "Hart to Hart" and "Family." During the late '80s, Spelling's company also moved into theatrical films, producing such diverse fare as "Mr. Mom," starring Michael Keaton as a harried househusband, as well as the drama "'Night Mother," which starred Sissy Spacek and Anne Bancroft.
Macquarie to get look at AB Ports booksThe Macquarie Bank-led consortium caught up in a battle for the UK's biggest port operator will get a look at the books of takeover target Associated British Ports.The Macquarie consortium is ready to gatecrash a bid by the Admiral Acquisitions group led by US investment bank Goldman Sachs, which had been agreed to by AB Ports. The Macquarie consortium has proposed a rival takeover offer worth at least STG2.58 billion ($A6.47 billion), which would match Admiral's latest bid which it increased in response to early indications of Macquarie's interest. Macquarie would not comment but The Daily Telegraph in London said AB Ports had agreed to let the Australian investment bank carry out due diligence. The share price of AB Ports, which has 21 ports in the UK and handles around 25 per cent of the nation's sea-borne trade, hit an all-time closing high of 871.50 pence Thursday with the market expecting the bidding war to hot up.
Sea Isle man indicted on 23 counts in car burglaries on Easter ...CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE — A Cape May County grand jury Tuesday handed up a 23-count indictment against a Sea Isle City man charged with breaking into at least a dozen cars in April.According to the indictment, Michael P. Gifford, 18, faces 13 counts of burglary, four counts of fourth-degree theft, three counts of credit-card theft, two counts of the second-degree charge of using a juvenile in the commission of a crime and one count of third-degree theft.A second-degree crime carries a possible prison term of as many as 10 years, while the third-degree crime has a penalty of as many as five years and a fourth-degree offense can result in as many as 18 months in prison.According to initial police reports, Gifford, aided by a 17-year-old boy, stole cell phones, cameras, sunglasses and loose change from unlocked cars Easter Sunday.A homeowner reported seeing someone rummaging through her vehicle the morning of April 16, police said.Police said the pair were seen running from block to block and were cornered between 82nd and 83rd streets.Minister's duty is to show more careOn the face of it, the alleged assault on Camilla might simply be dismissed as the irresponsible actions of two stupid young men.But there is a more serious issue here: what sort of morals are we tolerating and promoting in our society, and are we now starting to see some sinister fallout? This latest incident exposes the misnomer of the term 'reality TV'. Presented to our young viewers as role models, the Big Brother housemates are kept in an environment where their only meaningful interaction is with one another. As a social experiment, it has had interesting results in the past. However, the line between entertainment and anti-social behaviour is distinct. Viewers don't want their screens filled with images akin to televised cruise ship debauchery.
Let's Talk BeachCREST HAVEN - Freeholders will host their annual Beach Conference June 26 and this year's topic is Commercial and Recreational Fishing in Cape May County. The event is free and open to the public and will be held in the administration building here from 10 a.m. till noon. Registration and light refreshments begin at 9:30 a.m. Speakers will include legislators, government representatives of agencies regulating coastal areas, and members of the fishing industry community. Call 463-6678 for more information. Not at HigbeeCOLD SPRING - It's not the first time, but Lower Township police are using the recent incident of two adults found partially and completely nude on Higbee Beach to remind everyone that it's a no-no to take all your clothes off in public in the township. Police were called to the beach at about 2:30 p.m.
CROWE AND HOPE TAKE SIDECAR HONOURSIsle of Man pairing Nick Crowe and Darren Hope took victory in the Sidecar A TT race, a repeat of their success last year.The Manxmen came home 47.11 seconds clear of the field after registering an overall race time of one hour and 27.15 seconds. Steve Norbury and Scott Parnell were second with John Holden and Andrew Winkle third. Hope said: "We had to work really hard early in the race to get that win. "But there were some flags out on the last lap so I think we could have gone even faster but for that." The race started an hour later than originally planned - at 2.15pm - after mist on the west coast of the island had drifted across the 37.73-mile Mountain Course and delayed the start of the morning's Superstock race by an hour.
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