Tony Brown – why is he smiling? Isle of Man poster campaign!

I was driving back from a meeting this morning and was stopped at the traffic lights. I noticed  by the side of the road a poster campaign that has sprouted up around the Isle of Man. You see Tony,  I would guess that in the current economic climate you have to be 100% transparent and [...]

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Isle of Man and Channel Islands Online News Site

Image via CrunchBase There is a new online news service just gone live distributing news across the web available to Isle of Man and Channel Island business‘s and organisations. Isle News looks like its just started up, but it looks like a great service and all for free. If you not up to to speed [...]

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Kaupthing Isle of Man collapse update

Image via Wikipedia As the winding up by liquidators continues so does the blaming, naming and political sideshow. The process is due to be completed at the end of November and it is likely that everyone who had deposits will get their money back up to the ceiling limit of 50k as per the revised [...]

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Isle of Man brands … opportunity?

   Image by burge5000 via Flickr I was reading a recent article by Bruce Horovitz of USA TODAY about the brands that Barack Obama and his family are associated with by using, wearing or consuming. If Barack happens to wear a type of trainer or eat a certain make of food this can mean amazing [...]

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Isle of Man Newspapers Awards

Image via Wikipedia On Thursday night I was lucky enough to be invited to the Isle of Man Newspapers Awards for Excellence 2008 thanks to the guys at Isle of Man Post. I must admit the evening was very entertaining as the islands great and the good gathered at the Sefton Hotel and Villa Marina [...]

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Rare Manx Sheep spotted!

I took a trip out the other day for a walk and spotted this rare brred of Manx Sheep. The Orange Belly! mm I wonder what it tastes like! Ha Ha. Even better would make good coats for Highway Board! Related articles by Zemanta One of my favourite sources of inspiration… IoM blogging successes Walk [...]

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Isle of Man a rock in hard place

Image by Tasa_M via Flickr The Kaupthing collapse has been making the local news and tv stations again today. The thing is all for the wrong reasons. Last week it looked like there was some possible avenues that could lead to a positive result for all those saver who lost out. Now it seams that [...]

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Isle of Man TT action 2008

I have been watching the TT for over 25 years now and I have covered a good many vantage points around the course. I always had a few favourite spots like bottom of Bray Hill, Sulby Straight and Gorse Lea. This year I have been watching at the jump out of Crosby before the Wagon [...]

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TT 2008 is finally here!

I have been counting the days down from last years superb centenary event and now its here. I couldn’t make the first practice session on Saturday but I will be heading out this evening to sample a few laps. You cant’ beat it, the atmosphere, the fans and the best racing in what is one [...]

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The Isle of Man- 10 reasons why I love it!

I have lived on the Isle of Man for over 30 years now and I love it here, there is no better place (well when the sun is shining anyway!) Now we are in spring I really start to look forward to the summer and the outdoors. Here are my 10 reasons why I love [...]

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