A nightspot is featured on the front page of this week’s Manx Independent after it came in for huge criticism over its ’public displays of affection’ policy.

Would two men kissing ’disrupt’ straight customers?

The lead story is about Health Minister David Ashford.

He has also come in for criticism over an unkept promise to publish a ’point-by-point’ rebuttal of explosive accusations made by a medic.

Also this week:

What should happen to the Three Legs symbol that’s been created on North Barrule?

Chief Minister Howard Quayle was forced to defend his government against accusations of a ’smear campaign’ against the Steam Packet.

Douglas Council has applied for planning permission to use the TT paddock as a pay and display car park, outside of motorsport events.

Ramsey Commissioners have agreed to the Department of Infrastructure’s plans to improve Ramsey Quayside, but have stipulated that certain conditions should be met.

Businessman Ryan Eugene O’Kane, who was thrown out of the Saddle pub in Douglas and then struggled with police, has been sentenced.

A TT motorcycle dating from before the First World War is to be a new star exhibit at the Manx Museum.

Work is progressing on three new cycle paths, with one set to open this weekend.

The Rushen Pudding Club has raised £1,200 to go towards the opening of the new heritage centre in Port Erin.

The University College Isle of Man’s (UCM) engineering department’s students have taken part in a skills test.

As the new Steam Packet vessel Manxman is planned, we look back at the last vessel to bear the name.

Many have taken to social media at the weekend to complain how long the census form takes to complete the process online.

Yet more people appear in court after trying to bring cannabis to the island in the post.

The government could not use a grant scheme for respite care to provide extra funding to save the Corrin Memorial Home in Peel from closure, Health Minister David Ashford has said.

A record entry of nearly 400 runners tackled the Children Centre’s Race the Sun relay around the island’s Raad ny Foillan coastal footpath at the weekend. We publish lots of photos.

The long-running Yn Chruinnaght’s Celtic Gathering festival is set to take place later this year and Mike Wade tells us what to expect in our leisure and pleasure section Island Life.

A new competition run by an island-based global and environmental charity is asking for your thoughts on how to perfectly illustrate the effects that over-consumption and being a responsible consumer.

The Manx Charity Aid music marathon is to go on all day at the Manor Hotel in Willaston on Sunday, May 30.

An art exhibition, conceived before the Covid pandemic, but given a new meaning after it, has opened up in the west of the island. We have lots of photos.

In sport, Manx athlete Sarah Astin finished second in the women’s 3,000-metre race in the Loughborough International.

There is also lots more sport, plenty of community news, a page of your letters, our puzzles pages and a seven-day television guide.

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