Month: February 2017

The BBC is setting out plans to address some of the deep seated criticisms of their service provided to Scotland: “A new TV channel for the BBC in Scotland will begin broadcasting in autumn 2018, director-general Tony Hall has announced. The channel will

The Widow of Pat Finucane the Belfast lawyer murdered by a Ulster loyalist murder gang is to continue her fight for justice. Mrs Finucane is striving to achieve a full public inquiry into the death in which the collusion of members of the

A conference in Ireland this week has been considering the alarming decline in Atlantic Wild Salmon. Despite a decade long conservation measure the decline has continued and factors thought to be involved in this include climate change and salmon fish farming which has

This week the English Queen awarded a belated posthumous medal to a young British soldier killed in Cyprus in 1956. He was just 19 and died when a bomb exploded the news reports said he was undertaking ‘peacekeeping’ duties. Now ANY young mans

The MOD has responded to our query about the use of cluster munitions in Yemen against civilian targets we had written to them in December (see link) https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=355368334825936&id=100010583165640 The response is a combination of obfuscation and hypocrisy as while not denying the use

It seems the oil spill following a collision between a Manx registered vessel and another ship off Chennai India is much worse than earlier thought, The spill which we reported on earlier is now polluting 24km of coastline and the pictures of the

News from Mannin Branch of Celtic League: Following the retirement of the Deputy First Minister of the Stormont government the Manx Nationalist Party has written to him to acknowledge his role in bringing stability to the North of Ireland after the troubles. Martin