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In fact the last time she got this animated was when she accidentally caught an epsiode of The Tweenies filmed on her home turf and within nanoseconds had alerted half the 70,000 population to set their videos for the repeat.

I've already had a couple of inquiries from colleagues about whether Cavendish is from Britain or the UK or both.

After a quick check with the other half, I can confirm he's the former but not the latter. She also insisted, in the strongest terms, that I pointed out "of course a Manx person would always prefer to be called Manx first, British second". So there you are.

It's been a great year for the island so far, after local girl Samantha finished third in the ´óÏó´«Ã½ contest to find a Nancy which led to a hilarious feature about them renaming it 'The Isle of Sam'.

Not quite sure how they'll honour their new hero. I've just had a quick look at the rhyming dictionary and not a lot rhymes with Cav apart from have and, er, chav.

One thing's for sure, though, he's a good-looking lad and as my boss pointed out, it's a good job my partner didn't clap eyes on him before she met me. Although to be fair, he would have only been 14 at the time.