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Isle of Man News, Articles and InformationBitchiness: It's not just a girl thingPerhaps the tipping point came when Prince William's girlfriend, Kate Middleton, was reported in a gossip column to have made snide comments about the racy clothes and hard-drinking ways of Prince Harry's girlfriend, Chelsy Davy. Or maybe it was when South Africa's safety and security minister, Charles Nqakula, told the fellow countrymen he called 'constant moaners' to 'stop bitching or get out'. What started on Channel Four's Big Brother and spread to the World Cup WAGs (wives and girlfriends) has gained an unstoppable momentum. Bitching, it seems, has become an epidemic, as acceptable among quasi-royals and celebrity wannabes as among academics, politicians and the general public. Not long ago, people preferred to keep their bitching a guilty secret. Now it has become brash and reckless - just look at Grace Adams-Short, 20, who was recently voted out of the Big Brother house where she became known as 'Queen Bitch'.
The island saviour of lost souls who imported 'slaves' to do up ...GOD chose Pieter Van Rooyen to lead the broken, the depressed, the rejected and the confused and save their souls for Christ. Or so the balding 46-year-old South African, a former financial adviser at Barclays bank, says.But He is unlikely to approve of this self-appointed shepherd who puts himself on a par with Noah, Moses and Abraham importing illegal immigrants from his native country and putting them to work renovating his Isle of Man home for £1.36 an hour. Van Rooyen and his Life Church, the evangelical ministry he founded in Douglas, the islands capital, face ruin after he appeared in a Manx court to admit charges of faking documents that allowed five South African workers to enter the country illegally. He insisted that his intention was to coach them in spiritual matters, but in reality, the court was told, they were set to work as cheap labour doing up his family home in Onchan.
NELSON TALKS "PIRATE TALES," "THE ENIGMA CIPHER" & MOREWhile there are a quite a few "Boom!" regulars, Michael Alan Nelson is a little different from the (more comic-experienced) pack. He's written for most of Boom! Studios' "Tales" anthologies and he's currently writing "War of the Worlds: Second Wave" and with Andrew Cosby "X-Isle" and "The Enigma Cipher." "War of the Worlds: Second Wave" is his first ongoing series comic writing and it's been getting excellent reviews around the internet. CBR News caught up with Nelson to discuss the wide variety of projects he's currently working on.You've written a novel (published online at http://dingonovel.blogspot.com/) and have other prose writing experience. Is your work at Boom! your first comic book writing? How'd you get into it? Yes, my work for Boom! was my first time doing comic book writing.
Cut Scottish spending by billions - BarnettSCOTLAND should be stripped of billions of pounds of public money allocated by the Treasury, the architect of Britain's public spending system has demanded.Joel Barnett renewed his call to scrap his own Barnett Formula as Scotland's financial relationship with England came under intense political scrutiny. .Caution flags steal showCross did a good job avoiding the wall and getting her car back on the track, but she fell to fifth on the miscue and couldn't regain any ground.Vaughn inherited the lead and cruised to the win, his second in as many weeks. davis@sedaliademocrat.com .CROWE HOPES FOR MOLYNEUX RETURNTT sidecar victor Nick Crowe is hoping arch rival Dave Molyneux can be persuaded to rethink his retirement from Isle of Man action.Molyneux, who hails from the island, called time on a glittering TT career - which has featured 11 race victories - and was favourite for more honours at this year's festival. But a 145mph crash at Rhencullen during practice week left the 42-year-old nursing a dislocated shoulder and a gashed leg, injuries which ruled him out of this week's Sidecar A and B races. And although Molyneux has since been discharged from the island's Noble's Hospital, with passenger Craig Hallam also sent home after treatment for friction burns, the HM Plant Honda driver was prompted to announce his retirement from TT racing. But Crowe, who repeated his feat of 2005 by winning this year's Sidecar A race, has put rivalry aside and called for Molyneux to reconsider.
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