In the Manx Independent, the island’s biggest high school will be heavily oversubscribed in September.

We have more details in our page one story.

The lead is about crime figures. The Chief Constable’s report looks grim at first, but he explains why they seem so bad.

It’s local authority election time next month and nominations have closed. But in some areas not enough people have stood to fill the seats available.

A page on the latest regarding the dispute over elms which are due to be felled.

An environmental charity has challenged a claim from Manx Gas that the company became 100% carbon-neutral this summer.

Sean James Weir, of Douglas, will be ordered to attend court after a ladder he was carrying on his van flew off and went through the windscreen of another vehicle.

Gay rights pioneer Alan Shea will be a guest of honour at Tynwald Day next week, 30 years after he faced death threats when he presented a petition there.

Property developer Dandara has supplied further planning information in its continuing bid to redevelop the derelict Castletown Golf Links Hotel site.

Meet the remarkable Olive Dobson, who’s been playing organ in a chapel for eighty - yes EIGHTY - years.

Graham Peter Skillicorn, aged 62, who carried a Stanley knife blade in his shoe has been sentenced.

Andrew Baker, who earlier this year rowed the Atlantic solo raising more than £18,000 for charity, is funding Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training for members of sports clubs across the island.

The directors of the Corrin Home, which is set to close on July 31 with residents now moved out, have issued a statement hitting back at comments made by Health Minister David Ashford.

The Victorian-era camera obscura on Douglas Head is reopening for the first time since 2019, having been closed because of the pandemic.

Why a building in Ramsey town centre could be covered in murals.

A new operator for the NSC cafe.

Defibrillators for telephone boxes.

The Sulby Glen pub’s beer festival.

New rules will make it harder to challenge decisions made by the Financial Services Authority and that could deter new business from coming to the island, according to a local firm.

Our page of pictures from the past looks back at old Tynwald Days.

And we have a feature about what we can expect on Monday for 2021’s Tynwald Day.

Two pages of photos from Laxey Fair.

In Island Life there are more pictures of the longboat races in Peel.

On the first page of the leisure and pleasure section, the Service Players’ take on Robin Hood.

For all those who have ever wanted to try their hand at juggling to poi-spinning, circus skills and even fire dancing, a group in the island is offering to show you how.

A local theatre company, based in the south of the island is to put on a slightly haunting and slightly daft play about William Shakespeare.

The back page is dominated by Mark Cavendish’s fantastic achievement at the Tour de France.

There are 10 pages of sport altogether.

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

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