UK to IOM: Please deregister Chelsea owner's chopper

The UK government says it's asked the Isle of Man to deregister a helicopter belonging to Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich.

The Russian billionaire became the subject of sanctions on Thursday, and press reports say Transport Minister Grant Shapps has now asked the Island to remove the aircraft from its register.

According to the reports, the Eurocopter EC155 has the registration M-HELI and was first registered in December 2010.

This week, the Manx government said it had removed eight aircraft with links to sanctioned individuals from the register.