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Isle of Man News, Articles and InformationThe new face of addictionBritain is to get a new Class A drug, it was announced this week. Methylamphetamine, more commonly known as crystal meth, is to join the toughest category of illegal drugs after a recommendation by a government committee. Possessing it could soon land users in jail for seven years. Dealers might get life. Meth might not yet be a household name in the UK, but it has wreaked havoc in America, and senior police officers caution that it may be mainstream here within two years. British newspapers are already describing it as a creeping menace that is more deadly than crack. Beyond the fear and media rhetoric, how worried should we be? A growing band of British users already knows the effects of crystal meth, a powerful stimulant that can be smoked, swallowed, snorted or injected. Richard, a 29-year-old professional from London, has smoked it twice.
Isle of Man beats Birmingham to host Royal British Legion ConferenceThe Isle of Man secured the largest single conference to come to the Isle of Man in the past 10 years with the Royal British Legion conference for 2010 when conference delegates voted 347 to 141 in favour of the Isle of Man over Birmingham. A delegation of 11 Royal British Legion members, headed by Ellis Killey the chairman of Isle of Man County, supported by the Department of Tourism and Leisure, were successful in persuading delegates at the Annual National conference in Blackpool over the bank holiday weekend, to vote for the a return to the Isle of Man after an absence of 22 years the last conference was held in Douglas in 1988. The Isle of Man continues its tradition of a supportive membership with the Royal British Legion and in recent years has produced a national Chairman, several national Standard Bearers, a Chairman for the Poppy Appeal and has held the Poppy Appeal Trophy for nearly 30 years.Glasgow team tips the city as insurance baseGlasgow is being tipped as a good place to set up an insurance or reinsurance company in a bid to attract more financial services business to the city.After two major international insurance companies opened offices in Glasgow, a team from Scottish Enterprise and Glasgow City Council has been actively selling Scotland's biggest city as "an insurance and reinsurance destination". This would put Glasgow up as a rival centre to Lloyd's of London, New York, Bermuda and Dublin. "Glasgow is already a very strong financial centre," said Jim Watson, head of growing business at Scottish Enterprise Glasgow. "Historically, it has always had insurance companies here and we want to build on that by attracting more insurance and reinsurance companies to come to the city." Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, in conjunction with Glasgow City Council, have been on a whirlwind tour of London, wining and dining influential insurance industry executives last week. Royal travel costs £5.5mAccounts revealed yesterday that Prince Andrew clocked up £11,555 flying 300 miles from the Isle of Man to St Andrews, Scotland, last September.Prince Charles took a private flight from Wick in Scotland to Saudi Arabia for a state funeral last August, leaving the taxpayer a bill of £85,935. Princess Anne went to China, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia in September at a cost of £153,000. The Queens chartered flight with Prince Philip to the Commonwealth Games in Australia in March, set us back £279,039. In total the Royals spent £2.2million on helicopters and £2.4million on fixed wing flights. The Royal Train cost £600,000. Royal aides insisted the increased cost was justified by the number of official visits last year.
Spokeswoman for regenerationIslands and bikes. Both pretty marginal in a city-based, car-centred society. Both trundling along at the same unfashionable speed: slow. And both able to demonstrate that slow has its advantages in a hasty world.Take Shetland, where the pace of life means people actually know one another. The strength of community there is such that 7000 Shetlanders moved like greased lightning to protect Sakchai Makao, a 23-year-old Thai-born man plucked from their midst and hauled off to an English jail four weeks ago. If any community changed gears faster, I can't remember it. Doubtless a fast city mind looking at the case would have seen only an immigrant who'd served eight months for wilful fire-raising. In the average mainland "community", the dawn raid and deportation of such a foreign national would have raised hardly a whimper. PartyGaming to buy online bookmaker GamebookersLONDON, July 2 (Reuters) - The world's biggest online gaming group, PartyGaming (PRTY.L: Quote, Profile, Research), is in talks to buy online bookmaker Gamebookers, an industry source said on Sunday.PartyGaming recently arranged a $500 million loan with Dresdner Kleinwort and Royal Bank of Scotland, part of which is intended to fund an acquisition. PartyGaming shares rose by 2 percent last Thursday on speculation it was planning to buy either Gamebookers or Sweden's Unibet (UNIBsdb.ST: Quote, Profile, Research). But one industry executive told Reuters on Sunday he was certain it was the former.
"A million to one it's Gamebookers and not Unibet," he said, without giving further details. Antigua-licensed Gamebookers was founded in 1998 and is owned by Isle of Man-based Trident Gaming.
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