A trust services company has been accused by the financial regulator of diverting millions of pounds of client money.

The company says it will appeal the high court decision to appoint a receiver, manager and inspector.

Also this week:

Tributes have been paid to an Onchan man who was fatally struck by a car while on holiday in the United States.

Police say they have dealt with two cases in the last week in which scammers took a total of £30,000 from bank accounts.

Over two years into the creation of a new Education Bill, the Minister has ’failed to gain the confidence of the staff working in the department’s own schools’.

A man who admitted a £70,000 benefit fraud has avoided a jail term.

The Steam Packet’s operating profit has dipped in the year that it was acquired by the Manx government.

Work continues apace on the construction of a new housing estate at Ballasalla.

Prison governor Bob McColm has told a select committee he thinks the ITV documentary crew were ’seduced’ by certain characters.

Chief Constable Gary Roberts has told a Tynwald committee that the island’s border ’isn’t protected’ and is a ’weak point’ in the UK’s border.

A full two pages on the latest on the Laxey floods including residents forming their own report and the chairman of Manx Utilities apologising.

Paul Speller’s Tynwald Preview prepares us all for Chief Minister Howard Quayle’s ’state of the nation address’, a rather grandiose title for something that could equally go under the heading of ’update’.

Hospitals, care homes and pharmacies will not be able to hoard stockpiles of medical equipment and medicines, says Health Minister David Ashford.

The Eastern Civic Amenity Site could be set to move as the committee in charge has identified two sites where it could be based in future.

Pictures taken by veteran Isle of Man Newspapers photographer John Maddrell are included in a new exhibition.

A Douglas woman has admitted hiding heroin in her underwear and being involved in money laundering.

Repair work to the Laxey Wheel has begun.

The island is surrounded by an abundant amount of energy sources and isn’t using it, says zero carbon speaker.

To mark World Mental Health Day, students at St Ninian’s High School gave their listening ears to peers.

A man has been sentenced to 120 hours of community service for an £8,305 benefit fraud.

Friends of a Douglas man who’s recovering from aggressive bladder cancer shaved their beards in support of sufferers.

Isle of Man Post Office has released a set of six stamps, honouring the life and career of Sir Frank Gill, island engineer and telephony pioneer.

The Isle of Man lost an extremely popular and interesting character last week following the death of former Manchester City Football Club chairman Eric Alexander of Port St Mary.

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