News from the courts
A teenager who tried to break down a neighbour’s door using a ladder has been put on probation for 18 months.
Morgan John Ritchie admitted offences of property damage and provoking behaviour.
Magistrates also ordered him to pay £103.10 compensation for some window blinds which were damaged.
As we have previously reported, 17-year-old Ritchie and a juvenile had attempted to enter the property just after midnight on October 27.
Ritchie was said to have kicked the front door then picked up a ladder and started hitting the door with it.
The juvenile then tried to get in through a side window.
Paul Leibiedzinski
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Described as one of the finest poets the island has produced in modern times, the work of the late, Paul Lebiedzinski, has been published in for the first time.
’Until the Manxmen are Driven Away: The selected poems of Paul Lebiedzinski’ will be released this weekend by Culture Vannin.
A very familiar and much-loved character of the island between the 1970s and mid-1990s, Paul was best known as a poet and satirist who regularly performed impromptu readings at folk and cultural evenings, also publishing his poems in local newspapers.
A celebration of the 100th birthday of Irene White, resident of the Castle View home in Peel -
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Irene White has celebrated her 100th birthday with a visit from the Lieutenant Governor at the Castle View Nursing Home in Peel.
Irene moved to the island in 1973 with her late husband Cyril, in order to be closer to her daughter Angela (who died in 2009) and her three grandchildren - Adam, Sally-Ann and Victoria.
She did not want to be left behind, wanting instead to be ’hands-on grandparents’ - and soon ’fell in love’ with the island.