This week’s Isle of Man Examiner reports on the number of expensive properties on the market.
A well-known house is the latest. We report the story on page one.
Also this week:
More redundancies. This time aviation security is affected.
Director of public Health Dr Henrietta Ewart says that four of the island’s key health indicators are ’significantly worse’ than England’s.
The island has stocked up on some medicines ahead of Brexit but has been asked not to stockpile some medical devices and consumables.
Tributes to a former Steam Packet captain.
Children with speech disorders are being let down by the island’s health and education departments, say parents and an MHK.
Liberal Vannin leader Kate Beecroft has told a committee looking at losses suffered by the island’s film fund that she is not only concerned about the money.
A primary school has been recognised for its innovative practice by House of Lords members.
Onchan Commissioners have raised concerns about how the village would cope with a massive increase in vehicles.
The eastern area plan inquiry is drawing to a close. We report on that and the issue is the subject of this week’s Examiner comment column.
A dramatic yacht rescue in Peel.
Port St Mary Commissioners have been lambasted by the Information Commissioner and ordered to make public all documentation relating to the purchase of Manxonia House.
A group of protestors braved the rain to protest outside two of the island’s biggest banks.
Respondents to a consultation on rate reforms have rejected the idea of a centralised rate collector.
Kirk Michael’s Community Civic Centre was fully packed with people eager to see the new road design plans to improve pedestrian safety.
Insurance worker Gregory Nicholas Taylor has been given a suspended jail term after being held to be in contempt of court.
Despite a rainy start to the day, more than 50 men and women revved their classic engines while wearing tweed in support of prostate cancer and mental health causes. We have lots of photos.
The island’s ’poetry map’.
After the collapse of Thomas Cook, we ask people in our ’Word on the Street’ interviews, how they book holidays now.
A new skatepark will be unveiled soon in Castletown’s Poulsom Park.
Craig Brown, a 26-year-old labourer from Ramsey, has been punished by a court after headbutting his cousin in a pub.
A teenager who admitted shoplifting, vandalising Castletown Commissioners’ boardroom, handling goods stolen from a burglary and possessing cannabis has appeared in court.
Lots of photos of fairies trying to break a record in Douglas over the weekend.
A page of cheque presentations.
Online gaming companies face a threat from increasing regulations, gambling experts told a conference in the island. Our business pages report.
Also, after PokerStars announced redundancies in the Isle of Man, it’s shedding workers in Malta too.
The lead sports story rarely concerns crown green bowling. This week it does.
And there’s disappointment for the island’s FA senior men’s representative side.
Plus there is lots of more coverage of sport, 10 pages of business news, your letters, Terry Cringle’s Times Past, the property sales column and a whole scutch of community news.
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