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Public Inquiry Into Langness Peninsula Footpaths

A Public Inquiry to investigate the status of footpaths on Langness peninsula is scheduled to take place on Monday, 20th July 2009.

The Department of Transport has arranged the Inquiry following a motion approved by Tynwald in December last year. It will take place at the Mount Murray Hotel and Country Club, beginning at 9.30am.

The Inquiry will be conducted by Roy Hickey, a founder member of the Institution of Public Rights of Way, who has more than 30 years’ experience of all aspects of Public Rights of Way and countryside access work throughout the UK.

Anyone who wishes to appear at the Inquiry should notify the Department as early as possible to allow for arrangements to be made. Please contact Chris Hannon, Highways Division, Department of Transport, Sea Terminal Building, Douglas IM1 2RF or by calling 685010.

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Langness inquiry could be just weeks away

The a public inquiry into the public's right to use the network of Langness paths has been agreed by Tynwald.

The many affidavits forwarded by PRoWL to the Attorney General and the Department of Transport will be very useful at the inquiry, as will all the other affidavits produced recently in respect of the Herring Tower and Langness Point paths.

There are two matters which need to be tackled with some urgency:

Etihad To Codeshare With Aer Arann open up Isle of Man route

Etihad Airways is extending its services in Ireland with the announcement of a new codeshare agreement with Aer Arann which will provide travellers from Cork and Galway with greater access to 48 destinations around the world through its Abu Dhabi hub.

Under the deal, which is now in force, the Abu Dhabi-based airline will place its two-letter ‘EY’ code on Aer Arann’s regional flights from Cork and Galway to Dublin and also from the Isle of Man.

In turn, the codeshare agreement will give air travellers in Ireland and the Isle of Man access, via Dublin, to Etihad’s home base of Abu Dhabi and beyond it to 48 destinations on the airline’s global network which covers the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America.

Do You Have a Designated Driver?

In support of the Department of Transport and Isle of Man Constabulary’s annual anti-drink drive campaign, Heron and Brearley brewery is helping to reduce the number of drink drivers on Manx roads by running a designated driver initiative.

The Designated Driver – or ‘Des’ – initiative has been highly successful in the UK in previous years and the Road Safety Unit, the Police and Heron and Brearley were keen to launch a similar campaign on the Island. All Heron and Brearley public houses will be offering a free Coca-Cola Zero for the designated driver when a round of three other drinks is ordered over the Christmas and New Year period.

Prowl Backs Tynwald's Pragmatic Langness Solution

Tynwald today rejected, by an overwhelming majority, the report of its Langness Delegation. It chose instead to support a Department of Transport inquiry into the existence of footpaths across the whole of the Langness peninsular, south of the car park.

Public Rights of Way Langness welcomes Tynwald's decision to enter into an evidence-based independent review to establish once and for all the status of the paths at Langness.

Rights of Way spokesperson, Ian Costain, said, 'I'm very grateful to the Delegation for the amount of work they put into their report. Unfortunately their conclusions, by their own admission, fell short of the mutually-agreeable solution for which we had all hoped. Through detailed debate Members were able to arrive at the best decision for everyone. The best solution in this case is to let the law decide the status of the Langness paths.'

Top 5 Manx Tweeters

I was looking at Twitter Grader to see who the Twitter Elite in the Isle of Man are and these are the top 5 at the moment:

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