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His subsequent application to return was rejected but he decided to make the journey anyway. From his home in Irvine, North Ayrshire, McLaughlan went to the Isle of Whithorn, from where he rode the jetski to the Isle of Man last Friday. Douglas courthouse heard he expected the trip to take 40 minutes instead of nearly five hours. After he arrived at Ramsey at around 1pm, he walked 15 miles to his girlfriend's home in Douglas. The following afternoon, when stopped by a police officer, he gave her address as his own. Dale McLaughlan jetskied four-and-a-half hours to visit his girlfriend (Image:...

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A man in the United Kingdom was arrested earlier this week after he took a jet ski from Scotland to the Isle of Man to visit his girlfriend.  Dale McLaughlan, 28, from Irvine, Scotland, was sentenced to four weeks in jail on Monday for violating the Isle of Man’s coronavirus laws by traveling to the island on Friday, the BBC reported.  The island has been closed to non-residents since March with only a few exceptions, according to the Isle of Man website. The BBC reported that violations could face three ...

Scottish man who who rode jet ski across Irish Sea to visit girlfriend arrested for Covid breach According to the island’s Covid-19 regulations, non-residents are banned from entering without special permission.  McLaughlan’s lawyer said that he had applied for a fresh permit twice, but his request was denied on both occasions.  December 16, 2020 7:29:37 pm McLaughlan, who has no prior experience in riding a water scooter, had initially believed he would be able to complete the journey in 40 minutes, prosecutors said. (Representational image: Pixabay) A man who c...

Updated: 16 Dec 2020, 21:28 A DAD who crossed the Irish sea from Scotland to the Isle of Man on a £5,000 jet ski to see his girlfriend “can’t even swim”, his family revealed today. Lovesick Dale McLaughlan, 28, had just ten minutes of fuel left when he arrived at the island's Ramsey harbour on Friday afternoon after a bonkers 4.5 hour trip. 5 5 5 McLaughlan was caged for four weeks and may miss Christmas with his kids The Romeo roofer was jailed on Monday after he admitted arriving unlawfully in breach of Manx Covid rules in a desperate bid to see new girlfriend Jessica Radcliffe. He ...

In praise of (some) grand romantic gestures  Would-be Lancelots should be certain their ardour is returned before sweeping anyone off their feet 16 December 2020 • 7:00pm The grand romantic gesture has a strange place in our cultural history. I read Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur in my teens and was scarred for life by the notion that true love means your husband’s best friend rescuing you from an evil kidnapping knight, then sweeping you off again as you’re about to be burnt at the stake as a consequence of the quite natural adultery you’ve committed after being blown awa...