Hi Penny, thanks for your efforts. It would be really good to have a look at those newspaper archives. I'm thinking that James' and my Mystery Swimmer's exploits must surely have been worthy of a mention in IOM newspapers too. Perhaps when the new i-Museum is fully operational the scanned-in newspapers will be searchable and... you never know...
I wish this new improved bulletin board was still searchable in the old way as I find the new Search very frustrating. I tried looking for my original message with 'Swimmer' but it didn't come up - that word was only in the subject line, not the text and it seems that doesn't get included in the search.