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Isle of Man News, Articles and Information40 great things to do this summerWild festivals, cool beach cafes, spectacular al fresco shows - it's so much better to be out than in. Time to get the diary out and start planning your summerComplied by Chris Madigan Saturday June 17, 2006 The Guardian Footloose and fancy free ... (clockwise from left) dancing on the beach at Secret Sundaze, Ibiza; Kanye West performing at the Nice Festival; and the minimalist Nowhere Festival in Zaragoza. Photographs: Alamy, Karl Walter/Getty Images, David J Bradshaw. . This Scotland town is always booked solidWIGTOWN, SCOTLAND - You'd drive right through the tiny place - in about a minute - if you didn't know what was there. Then again, you wouldn't be driving through in the first place, because there's arguably less beyond Wigtown than there is in it.But, oh, the charm you'd miss. Stick around for a while. Clearly something's afoot. Oh, look! A used book store. And then - huh? - another. And another... In a village of about 1,500 people, where the "downtown" is little more than two blocks, the streets are lined, almost literally, with old books. We'd heard about Wigtown from a friend. Learning we had been browsing the map of Scotland, he somewhat hesitantly mentioned it. After all, it wasn't the craggy, haunting Highlands most people know.
Edwards, Stoner, McGuinness And Rutter To Appear At Road Racing ...On Tuesday, 27th June 2006 “Texas Tornado" Colin Edwards will once again be appearing at the Club Amadeus in Northallerton. The Camel Yamaha rider's visits to the North Yorkshire market town have become part of his build up to the British Grand Prix since he switched from World Superbikes where he was a double Champion. Colin will be joined by Australian Casey Stoner who is having a sensational first season in MotoGP after moving up from the 250cc GP class. Joining the two stars of MotoGP will be Stobart Honda British Superbike rider Michael Rutter who flies in from a family holiday to be there but one of the loudest cheers will be for TT Hero John McGuinness who just last week secured a hat-trick of wins in the Isle of Man and set a new lap record of nearly 130mph! Joining the racers on stage will be HRC's Sporting Manager Chris Herring, Eurosport's MotoGP commentator Julian Ryder and Sky's British Superbike presenter Keith Huewen.Sports Round-upRahul Dravid completed his 23rd Test hundred and Mohammed Kaif hit his maiden Test century as India dominated play before tea on the second day of the second Test against the West Indies yesterday. India gave the home side a torrid time at the Beausejour Cricket Ground and had reached 584 for seven in their first innings by the interval. Dravid, India's captain, was dismissed by the penultimate ball before lunch for 146, with Kaif still unbeaten on 145. The first Test was drawn. Boxing Audley Harrison's new trainer, Buddy McGirt, says the British heavyweight boxer can be a champion again. McGirt believes the Sydney Olympics gold medallist's troubles are just mental and that he can recover after two poor defeats. Harrison won his first fight with McGirt on Friday; he stopped Andrew Greeley in the third round in Atlantic City, New Jersey.Mopping up the messJust as the floods didn't arrive until after the rains had stopped and the sun was out, there was a delayed reaction to the stress.As long as the community was waiting to see how high the water would rise, the tension seemed to stop time and suspend action. But once the danger had passed, the tension broke and spilled over. A different kind of mud. Just as messy. From Shaw's windows, opened wide to allow the hot, dry breeze to sweep out the stale air, voices could be heard bickering over how to maneuver heavy furniture. "We tried it your way. Twice. And it didn't work! Now let's try it my way. OK?" "You always turn on the ones you love," explains Betsey Blair, a friend who was helping Shaw clean out the house. "Who better to vent with than the ones you always count on?" Throughout the day, the doorbell kept ringing.
Pastor paid 'slave wages' to illegal migrant buildersThe leader of a newly-formed evangelist church was preparing to face his congregation last night to explain why he illegally shipped a group of African workers into Britain so that they could help build his house on "slave wages". Pieter van Rooyen, 46, founder of the Life Church in Douglas, Isle of Man, helped get the men through Customs on the pretext that they were embarking on a business training course. Once they were on the island their employer, who boasts on his website that "the light that shines the farthest shines the brightest at home", paid them as little as £1.36 an hour for what was sometimes a 72-hour week, renovating the luxury home in Onchan. Yesterday Van Rooyen, who when not preaching was working as a senior manager with Barclays Bank, appeared at a Manx court with another South African, Jacobus Visser, 43, the owner of a building company and himself an illegal immigrant.Taking the biscuitThe meeting room lights had been turned off and a residual cocktail of smells hung in the air - coffee breath mixed with deodorant and marker pen. But a whiff of tuna cut through it all, and my spirits rose. I flicked on the light switch, and spotted the uneaten plate of neatly stacked triangular sandwiches in the centre of the table.The bread had started to turn stale and the fillings had been warmed by body heat, but none of that mattered as I crammed one into my mouth, savouring every delicious chew before taking the rest to finish at my desk. I needed to stock up in case this was my last meal of the week. This scavenging started when a few large household bills forced me to make cutbacks on my daily spending. Buying lunch at work was a bad habit - I was regularly splashing out £4 or more a day on exotic fare from the local sandwich shop near my office at the Department of Trade and Industry in Westminster.
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. .Bitchiness: 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'.
Sukhdev Sandhu on the history of 'video art'One of the most interesting aspects of this year's Cannes Film Festival was the number of films made by directors whose backgrounds were in video art, not features. Douglas Gordon, who first came to public attention with 24-Hour Psycho (1993), in which he stretched Hitchcock's thriller to last an entire day, collaborated with Philippe Pareno on Zidane, A 21st-Century Portrait, in which 17 cameras were trained solely on the French midfielder during a Real Madrid game. Julia Loktev, director of the terrific Day Night Day Night, about an American girl set on blowing up Times Square, has had video-installations screened at Tate Modern. Another film to draw crowds was the portmanteau feature Destricted, in which prominent left-field directors were invited to reflect on sex and pornography. |
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