In this week’s Isle of Man Examiner: We have asked for details of how the government has tried to protect the letters ’TT’.

Inside the paper, there are examples of what has been done.

We also exclusively reveal that Manx Telecom has been told to spend more on its network after recent problems when many people lost broadband.

Inside:

Another chance to see photographs from all reception classes in the Isle of Man.

A serving police officer will be committed to the Court of General Gaol Delivery in December.

Dandara’s proposal to build 181 houses to the west of Ramsey has not been greeted with enthusiasm by local authority politicians.

Why the Electric Railway sign has been removed from the hill above the Summerland site.

Dillon Frazer Cowie has admitted spitting in a pregnant woman’s face.

Amy Cowley has just undergone a procedure at the London Clinic to donate life-saving stem cells to a young girl with blood cancer. She tells us more.

Manx National Heritage has marked Trafalgar Day by unveiling the bronze bust of Captain John Quilliam in its new site overlooking Castletown Bay.

Details for the reinstallation of bridges on the island’s former railway line between St John’s and Kirk Michael have been submitted to planners.

There are about 70 applications a week for key workers to visit the island.

The new Steam Packet ferry will be powered like no other before it. It will have a hybrid diesel-electric engine.

A man who breached Covid-19 restrictions on gatherings during lockdown in Laxey has been sentenced.

Repatriation flights have brought home holidaymakers caught up by the shutting of the Guernsey air bridge.

The Peel Heritage Trust report.

A two-page feature about nurses and midwives who held a procession from the hospital and around Douglas.

In our street interviews, which were conducted before the airbridge shut, a woman from Guernsey tells us that shopping in the Isle of Man is ten times better than in her home island.

Our page from the past recalls a bigamist vicar.

In our food and farming pages, we report on success for island producers in an event described as the ’food Oscars’.

Changes being made to the Department of Education following a damning report should be a catalyst for a more fundamental restructuring of government services, Daphne Caine MHK says.

Government Minister Alfred Cannan has hit out at teachers over industrial action - appearing to suggest they should not complain about expectations to work beyond contracted hours.

The BBC says a decision to cut the level of support to Manx pensioners has been done in the interest of it fairness.

The closure of the "air bridge" to Guernsey.

Pictures of every reception class in the Isle of Man.

There are eight action-packed sports pages in all this week.

Plus property prices, your letters, business news, our popular crossword and plenty of community news.

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