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MHKs confident of resolving Langness access issue  A DELEGATION of MHKs tasked with resolving a high-profile row over access rights at Langness say they are confident of a 'positive and satisfactory' outcome.
Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson and his Manx-born wife Francie have been involved in a bitter dispute with campaigners PRoWL after the celebrity couple re-routed part of the coastal footpath around their Lighthouse Cottages home.
They have blamed the move on what Mr Clarkson has described as 'deeply militant dog walkers' and insist they only want to preserve their privacy.
However, PRoWL insist the footpath has been used by generations of ramblers.
A motion calling for a public inquiry into the dispute was adjourned again in Tynwald this week after David Cannan (Michael), chairman of the delegation elected to meet both sides, hinted that a resolution could be in sight.
He said: 'Matters are now at a stage at which it would be wholly inappropriate for me to go into further detail and I would
ask members not to press me to do so.
'We are confident, however, that we will be able to report to the July Tynwald with positive and satisfactory proposals.'
Mr Cannan said the delegation, comprising himself, Bill Malarkey (Douglas South), Graham Cregeen (Malew and Santon) and Attorney General John Corlett, has so far met nine times and visited the site on three occasions.
'A considerable amount of work and thought has gone into the matter, not least from the attorney general's chambers but also from the Department of Transport.'
Tynwald subsequently voted unanimously to adjourn a debate on a public inquiry into the issue until the end of the parliamentary session or until the delegation's report was laid before the court.
* From Isle of Man Newspapers (iomtoday.co.im) 16th April 2008
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