The minister for community culture and leisure says he is bitterly disappointed the Manx Telecom Bay Festival has been cancelled.

However, David Cretney insists his department was not in a position to help out financially.

Festival promoters yesterday (Tuesday) claimed government contributed to the failure of the three-day event, but Mr Cretney believes that's unfair (play audio file):

Organisers say everybody who bought a ticket will get a refund by writing to an address on the festival website, bayfestival.im