On the front page of this week’s Manx Independent we report on yet another plan for the old bus station site in Lord Street, Douglas.

Nobody under 30 will remember the old bus station after it was knocked down in preparation for promised developments that never actually happened.

Also this week:

A printing company has announced redundancies

The issue of Citywing’s collapse was raised in the House of Keys

MHKs also questioned why different departments of government use different measures of inflation

We meet the first batch of this year’s aspiring Manx Grand Prix newcomers

What is to be done with tons of sediment that needs to be dredged from Peel inner harbour?

The island’s only professional snooker player, Colby’s Darryl Hill, is now releasing his own music

Key dates from history and literature have been compiled into a timeline by Ramsey Grammar School students

Talented 16-year-old St George’s footballer Adam Long has signed a professional contract with English Championship side Wigan Athletic

Margaret Brownsdon, who launched the Ben-my-Chree in 1965, the Steam Packet’s second car ferry, has died in her 100th year

Two women who live in the island and who have had heart replacements are backing an organ donation campaign

A section of a major new ecological area in the north of the island is slowly nearing completion, thanks to the efforts of volunteers

The number of work permit applications in the Isle of Man has fallen by a quarter in three years

The Island Life section reviews the Young Farmers’ concert and looks at the world of entertainment in the Isle of Man

Seven-day television guide

A look ahead at the weekend’s sport

Pullyman’s column

Your letters

And the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide

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