That's a question that we've heard a lot over the last few weeks here at Publishing House.

After all, if there had been healthy interest in the race, the organisers wouldn't have had to extend the deadline for entries. Or am I just being cynical?

On the front page of today's Examiner, we quote Tourism Minister Martyn Quayle saying that the 'green TT' is going to go ahead. Not only that, but he gushes: 'I can tell you that we are so very excited about this and we have had very warm endorsement of it.'

So, it would appear that all our fears are unfounded.

It all rather begs the question of whether this is a news story at all.
After all, the powers-that-be began banging on about the green TT months ago.

So what's new?

Well, a number of people in the TT world have spoken off the record to us about their concerns about the event's future. It might be that they've had an axe to grind and an agenda of their own that they were trying to pursue. But we thought the issue worthy of further investigation.

We had also become a bit suspicious after things seemed to be going very quiet about the whole TTXGP issue - especially after the furore and subsequent U-turn about practice times and the forced withdrawal of a number of stars.

I'm sure that many readers shared our suspicions.

So, although the story seems to be 'nothing's changed', this article should reassure those readers.

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You might have noticed that the Examiner is out a day later than normal. Most weeks, the Examiner is in the shops in Douglas at Monday lunchtime.

We start to print it just before 12 and it's taken out soon afterwards. GE White's vans then take it all over the Island.

On bank holidays, things are different. After all, many shops shut up around lunchtime on bank holiday Mondays, so getting the Examiner there for then would be a bit silly. So we leave it for 24 hours.

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