GOVERNMENT PULLS OUT OF CYCLING WEEK
16 September 2003

Manx International Cycling Week is to end.

A statement by the organisers, the Manx Viking Wheelers and a support committee, says the Department of Tourism no longer feels it can financially support the festival which began in 1936.

The decision was reached during an extraordinary meeting of the organisation last night.

The festival has been under pressure for many years as numbers dwindled and in recent times the organisers have come under mounting pressure over road closures.