Many of the Island's top stars were at last nights Isle of Man Bank Sports Awards gala ceremony at the Villa Marina Royal Hall to celebrate their achievements during 2009. The Guest of honour was athlete Dame Mary Peters who won the pentathlon gold for Great Britain at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

Swimmers Grant Halsall and Olivia Rawlinson were awarded under-21 sportsman, and under-21 sportswoman of the year awards respectively for their successes in 2009. For more details of the other winners please see the Manx Radio or IoM Today articles.

You can now keep up to date with all Manx swimming news in one place. As well as notifying you of any changes to our website on our home page and in our RSS feed we now check the official Isle of Man swimming website every day and if there are any updates we will also notify you of those on our home page and in our RSS feed. You no longer have to check dozens of web pages to see if they have been updated, we will do the hard work for you! If you would like to know which web pages we monitor for changes, and when they were last updated you can find out here.

A group of intrepid swimmers is aiming to make it across the Irish Sea at the start of TT Week, all in the name of a good cause. The ten plan on swimming the 47 miles between Barrow and Laxey as a relay to raise funds for the local Balla Africa charity, with £50,000 the target.

For more information see the Balla Africa website or the Manx Radio article.