Former music impresario given restraint order

A businessman behind a failed property project has been told he can't sue without permission from a court for two years.

Samuel George Alder of The Grange in Onchan has been fighting to keep his home after his company, Slegaby Estates, was ordered to repay £2.6 million in loans after a farm conversion project fell through.

A legal battle over the loans has raged for more than a decade, with Mr Alder being declared bankrupt.

HSBC Bank asked Deemster Needham for a civil restraint order preventing Mr Alder from taking further legal action in the case - and the deemster agreed to issue one.

Mr Alder is former chairman of the King William's College governors, and executive chairman of the Isle of Man Arts Council - he used to manage musicians including T-Rex, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music and Brian Eno.