This week’s Manx Independent reveals more about the alert that led to the bomb squad going on to the streets of Douglas.

One of our reporters has been to the area, spoken to neighbours and found out more.

After the announcement earlier this week that private health was to be suspended at Noble’s Hospital, we exclusively reveal that a consultant has quit.

His resignation letter is explosive.

Also this week:

The flats development where pet cats will be banned under planning proposals.

Why former Clerk of Tynwald St John Bates has been to court.

A concert that’s planned in tribute for a young woman who died last week.

Charles and Susan Jane Alexander reminisce as they prepare to retire from their jewellery business.

A good Samaritan has come forward after an appeal in the Manx Independent.

The government wants more of us to walk, cycle or jog to work. So what does its strategy involve?

How the Premier Inn building work is progressing.

Objections to a 48-house development in the south of the island.

How a Ramsey company’s donation is helping the area of Indonesia hit by a tsunami.

Firefighters rescue a man from his loft.

A great intiative to help pupils at a Douglas primary school get outdoors.

A competition to find the island’s best Hop tu Naa turnip.

A campaign being launched in the island’s schools is aiming to teach children about the dangers of allergies.

A reception has been held for an island-based horologist who is to receive an OBE for his ’outstanding services to watchmaking’.

The island’s branch of the British Heart Foundation is going it alone - after ending its association with the parent charity.

Thirty students took on the role of business consultants in the University College Isle of Man [UCM] Business Challenge, to advise island company, Manx Mohair, on how to grow their business. We report what happened.

A Merseysider jailed for being aggressively drunk outside a Douglas seafront pub has lost his appeal against his sentence.

There’s a campaign to honour Cornelius Smelt, with a statue of him completing the column in Castletown’s Market Square.

The 16-page Island Life supplement looks forward to a Totally 80s night and, as always, has lots of information of entertainment and leisure around the Isle of Man.

There are 12 pages of sports action and a look forward to what we can expect over the weekend.

In addition, there are your letters, the Down Memory Lane old photos, readers’ photographs, the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide, a seven-day television guide and lots of community news.

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