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Mann: DHA Provide Detailed Clarification to League Queries

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The Department of Home Affairs has responded to our various queries sent to them in early June.

The Department’s response is set out below and as indicated we were unable to include the detailed tabular breakdown (we had to convert from pdf to word format) but overall totals of staff are given in our note.

Helpfully the Department has set out our questions with the response below each:

“Dear Mr Moffatt

Jim Murphy has stood down as Scottish Labour leader. Labour lost 40 of its 41 Scottish constituencies to the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the UK General Election, including Mr Murphy's East Renfrewshire seat. After this disaster for Labour Jim Murphy said he would draw up plans for reforms which he hoped would lead to the party's recovery in Scotland. Speaking at a media conference in Glasgow on Saturday afternoon he announced a set of proposals which he said had been agreed in principle by the party's executive council. 

Isle of Man Railways received further recognition of the Island's historical network recently with the award of three Red Wheel plaques by The Transport Trust.

Seventy members of The Transport Trust were on the Island as part of their fiftieth anniversary celebrations, enjoying a packed itinerary and a number of talks.

This included journeys on the Isle of Man Steam Railway, the Manx Electric Railway, the Great Laxey Mine Railway, the Snaefell Mountain Railway, vintage buses and the Douglas Horse Trams.

Lake Vyrnwy Nature Reserve and Estate (Welsh: Llyn Efyrnwy/Llyn Llanwddyn) is an area of land in Montgomeryshire (Welsh: Sir Drefaldwyn), Powys, in Mid Wales. It surrounds the Victorian reservoir of Lake Vyrnwy. The nature reserve and the area around it are jointly managed by the charity Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB), and Severn Trent Water.

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Detained Submariner Reply: Disturbing Report on Military Detention Facilities

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The Celtic League has received a reply to the query we sent to the Minister for Defence about Belfast born submariner Able Seaman William McNeilly. The reply was forwarded by the Royal Navy Command HQ Portsmouth.

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Mann: DHA Face Pitfalls on the Road to Police Privatisation

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The Celtic League has started to receive feedback on our queries about the Police Consultation launched in the Isle of Man so called ‘civilianisation’.

Meanwhile we understand one of the areas that DHA may see as ripe for outsourcing is control and administration of the custody suite. It is understandably an area that if ‘civilianised’ at face value could free up more Police Officers for front line duties.

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More Pressing Danger as Gulls Get a Bad Press

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David Cameron MP: ‘don’t you just love him’! As we revealed recently the ‘Toryboy’ PM has had to make an embarrassing u-turn over his support for a cull of seagulls. Although he did confess that he had no love for the birds because one ‘had once taken the ham out of his sandwich’ (see link to our story):

Sea Gulls: Whatever Next on Cameron’s Hit List!

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Beyond the Tamar a Bridge Too Far!

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As concern grows that the new regime in London may consider constituencies which span the River Tamar Kernow branch activists warn that’s ‘a bridge too far’ (see below):

“The following communication has been forwarded to all six of Cornwall’s MPs, to the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Boundary Commission, the United Nations and Council of Europe and to the press in Cornwall.

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Rwanda: Securing The Records of This Sorry Episode

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Almost twenty years ago the Isle of Man found itself involved in allegations of arms trading by companies registered here in Africa .

It would not be the first time such allegations were found to have substance and sadly it would not be the last.

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Sea Gulls: Whatever Next on Cameron’s Hit List!

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