Port St Mary Residents Now Can Go Back Home

After Spending All Night In Refuge

People have now been told they can return to their homes in Port St Mary after last nights Land Slide.

Meetings have been held all morning to ascertain the cause of the collapse of Happy Valley and what the next step forward should be.

The unstable site will be monitored by engingeers throughout the day and overnight with regular weather condition check ups also to be carried out.

Home owners in the surrounding area have been told that they will be immeditately alerted if things start to deteriorate.

Inspector Moss from Port Erin Police told us that although a large scale clean up and safety assessment is needed, things are slowly returning to normality.

The town clerk Bryan Kelly told 3fm that the department of transport are stabilising the back foundations of the road and that a void needs to be filled immediately.

He said that Bay view Road is being assessed to see if anything else is causing damage.

There is a reminder to port St Mary residents who are affected by the road closures that they can park at the town hall. The headmaster of the local primary school said that people can use the playground to park in just in school hours.