News and Press Releases relating to Sport
Isle News, 20 October 2009 – A meeting of Ministers and officers from the Department of Transport, the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry and the Department of Tourism and Leisure has decided against introducing a permit system to restrict the use of off-road motorbikes’ on green lanes in upland areas.
However, upland tracks used by [...]
Isle News, 19 October 2009 – The Isle of Man Government’s Department of Tourism and Leisure, promoters of the Isle of Man TT Races, today invited expressions of interest regarding four key areas associated with the delivery of the event.
The services that suppliers are invited to express an interest in are the Official Travel and Ticketing [...]
Isle News, 10 October 2009 – Football is changing. Once only for the boys, the beautiful game has attracted increasing amounts of interest from women and girls over the years. Recently, the England Women’s team raised the profile of the female game by getting to the European Championship Final in Helsinki, and the momentum is such [...]
Isle News, 10 October 2009 – Thirty three members of the King William’s College ‘family’ took part in the school’s annual Stableford Golf Competition which was held recently at Castletown Golf Links.
The Men’s competition was won by Mike Pigott, with a score of 39 points; Duncan Donald finished as runner-up.
Playing at Castletown for the first [...]
Isle News, 8 October 2009 – The International Football Union (IFU) is a newly registered organisation, trying to develop an association that will happily receive all the FAs not affiliated with FIFA that wish to join the International Football Union. The International Football Union seeks to affiliate independent nations or regions/islands with a high degree of [...]
Isle News, 8 October 2009 – Lloyds TSB Offshore has been praised for its investment in Island Gymnastics by the parents of one of the local gymnasts, Tony Duchars.
Tony, aged 11 years old, is following the Elite pathway which is for individual gymnasts and recognises the top 5% of the gymnast talent pool in the United [...]
Isle News, 7 October 2009 – Kyran Bracken, Jersey’s star of ITV1 show Dancing on Ice, has declared his support for a local youngster’s campaign to secure Jersey a permanent ice rink.
The skating star is in the island this week to announce that his company and sponsors Sure and Nokia Siemens Networks will be running ‘Sure [...]
Isle News, 6 October 2009 – ISLANDERS and Heather Watson fans across the globe can log onto the tennis star’s first official website after www.heatherwatson.co.uk went live today.
Working with website designers at Sportingbet, this site has been created to give Heather the opportunity for regular input and to keep her supporters as up to date as [...]
Isle News, 6 October 2009 – Fitness expert Jon Le Tocq of Storm Force Fitness today announced a very special invite to take part in the Isle of Man’s first Kettlebell Training Workshop to learn everything you need to know about the hottest fat loss tool in the fitness industry.
Kettlebell training is now widely recognised amongst [...]
Isle News, 5 October 2009 – Friends Provident International announces today it is supporting the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, in a £20,000 sponsorship deal. The games, which will take place from 7 to 13 September 2011, will be one of the biggest events ever to take place on the Island.
Announcing the [...]
