Tributes have been paid to the man who helped create the modern Manx Radio by sparking a constitutional crisis on the Island in the 1960s.
Tony Benn MP died in the early hours of this morning aged 88.
He was the UK’s Postmaster General who outlawed pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline North, moored off the Ramsey coast.
Terry Cringle says in 1967 his Marine Broadcasting Offences Act sparked outrage on the Isle of Man when it was forcibly extended here:Clip 1
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