A local commissioner says a recent media report suggesting a degree of opposition to next month's Castletown Festival was well wide of the mark.
Colin Leather says the vast majority of people are fully behind the event, which attracted around 7,000 people to the town when it was held for the first time, last year.
He says most of the opposition has come from a single retailer, and any suggestion that stalls would duplicate products already on sale in shops is a non-starter as far as the commissioners are concerned (listen to audio file below):
The second annual Castletown Festival will be staged on five days, over the first three weekends of next month, starting on Saturday, December 3.
The 'big switch-on' of the town's Christmas lights will be at 3pm on that day.
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