The number of people employed by the Manx civil service has risen, while the numbers employed at the hospital and by the police and fire services have fallen.

This week’s Isle of Man Examiner has the full story.

Also this week:

A-level results from the island’s five state secondary schools

The Jurby family made homeless by a fire

Changes to the Isle of Man’s border security are being trialled as the Manx government tries to keep freedom of movement between the island, the UK and the Republic of Ireland

We hear from people from the Isle of Man who were in Barcelona during last week’s terror attacks

A charity campaigning to bring to life the heritage of Knockaloe internment camp fears a sewage plant scheme could scupper its plans

Scaffolding goes up on Queen’s Pier, Ramsey, but volunteers behind the project still need to raise thousands of pounds

An ’action plan’ for consultation on proposed changes to the planning system will be published ’as soon as it is ready’

The clerk of Onchan District Commissioners has been sacked after less than a year in the job

In the third of his articles looking back at the first parliamentary year of the Quayle administration, Paul Speller takes a closer look at the Council of Ministers and its Programme for Government and recommends and reveals who he feels has had the toughest year

Records of allegations of bullying and discrimination within the Manx police force were not kept until April this year, it has emerged

Douglas Council leader David Christian has vowed that the town hall will be ’relentless’ in hunting down those who don’t pay their rates after a number of prosecutions

A truck driver has been sentenced after crashing into an electricity cable and causing a power outage

The sale of historic Cronkbourne village is close to completion

A new housing development in Crosby with 28 new homes has taken a step forward

We find out about the work of the Samaritans

We catch up with Scottish singer KT Tunstall ahead of her performance on Wednesday night at the Gaiety Theatre

A picture special of Isle of Man Railways’ Island at War weekend

Plus:

All the weekend’s sports action, 10 pages of business news, your letters, the social diary, community news and Terry Cringle’s two pages of nostalgia.

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