The organiser of Public Rights of Way Langness is hoping for action from the Council of Ministers after the organisation's presentation to Tynwald this week.

Ian Costain says the point of it was to explain to politicians why Langness matters to them, to show the paths have the perfect credentials for being given right of way status and how Manx law can be applied to do that.

Trails around the peninsula have been the subject of a long-running dispute between PROWL and Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who owns the old lighthouse cottages and surrounding land where parts of them run onto.

Mr Costain thinks things may now be moving in the right direction as far as they're concerned: