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- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
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- 'MP' held after Commons disturbance
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
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Columns
CRINGLE: An amusing week?
THE charming lady who had stopped me in the car park at Manx Radio to say how much she liked my Examiner column added: ‘Amusing things must happen to you every day.’
CRINGLE: Name check throws up possibilities
I WAS listening to the wireless – BBC Radio 4 – and heard Sue Townsend, author of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, saying: ‘Every man I have ever known has wanted to be called Steve.’
QUIRKS OF LIFE: Feeling Facebook fatigue
AT one point in time, I was in the grip of a diary habit so forceful that documenting my daily activities in detail left me with little time to do anything else. The ironic outcome you’ll already have guessed: within no time, I had nothing to record beyond ‘wrote my diary’.
The Manx Sound Exchange: Recording - the home front
IN recent weeks the Manx Sound Exchange has looked at how Manx bands and musicians can get away from the island and the logistics of touring the UK and further afield in order to perform to new faces and further your cause.
Our challenge to the people of the Isle of Man
This week’s Manx Independent will include a special eight-page supplement, Green Living.
ANGELA GREGORY: Oh, for a night’s sleep
HAVING minutes ago had a conversation with a colleague in which I told him, pretty categorically, how disinterested I was when columnists insisted on resorting to tales of family life I find myself in a quandary.
CRINGLE: A wonder police have not noticed
WHEN I worked as a journalist in Manchester years ago students at the university there held a Rag Week every year in which they set up all sorts of stunts in public in order to raise money for good causes. The public loved it.
Life after Planes Over Paris
EVERY cloud has a silver lining, so says the optimist. One particular cloud meant the end of Manx post-rock heavyweights Planes Over Paris – when singer and synth player Steph Gomaa gave in to wanderlust to leave the island to travel in 2011.
CRINGLE: How airport prices make it worth risk
TERRORISM has never been my idea of a good career option.
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Weather for Isle of Man
Thursday 23 February 2012
Today
Cloudy
Temperature: 9 C to 12 C
Wind Speed: 22 mph
Wind direction: South west
Tomorrow
Sunny spells
Temperature: 5 C to 10 C
Wind Speed: 17 mph
Wind direction: West
