After last week’s problems with fog and passenger complaints, the Steam Packet is looking at its booking system again.

This week’s Isle of Man Examiner reports more.

Also this week:

Fancy a Valentine’s meal for two AND a stay in the Comis Hotel at Mount Murray?

It’s the prize in our new competition.

In the news:

An alarming rise in one of the key indicators of child poverty.

The court case involving Ramsey marina boss Robin Bromley-Martin driving on the TT course continued yesterday. One of our reporters was there.

An astonishing story about a baby who underwent surgery when he was still in his mother’s womb.

The government’s pension liability is now more than £4BILLION.

The devastating impact of a land dispute has been outlined to a parliamentary committee by Tynwald Day petitioner Mark Cleator, who is calling for changes to the law on ’adverse possession’ which he described as ’wholly abhorrent’.

The amount many of us pay in local authority rates is rising.

Plasterer Christopher Tomkinson has ended up in court after a Boxing Day prank in a pub went wrong.

The Cabinet Office has been accused of trying to set and mark its own homework over changes to planning rules.

The latest on the longrunning teachers’ dispute as members of one union appear to disagree with their leaders.

A resident badly hit by the flood in Laxey in October tells us about his fears regarding a flood gate near his home.

The World Health Organisation has designated 2020 the ’Year of the Nurse and Midwife’ in recognition of the vital role the professions play in health service provision. We report how the Isle of Man is getting involved.

Repairs to a famous waterwheel in Groudle will still go ahead despite the planning application expiring.

Chief Minister Howard Quayle says we’ll all have to change our lives to combat climate change.

Reforms to hospital consultants’ pay are saving the government up to £600,000 a year.

A man who was drunk and disorderly and made racist remarks to a member of staff at Noble’s Hospital has been sentenced.

A nerve-shredding thriller by island author C M Ewan is to be launched at the Henry Bloom Noble Library.

In his politics column, Alistair Ramsay looks at the government’s ambitious plans for social care reform and the climate emergency. So where is all this money coming from?

Members of churches, members of Tynwald, schoolchildren, community groups and members of the public attended the Isle of Man National Holocaust Memorial Day service at St Geroge’s Church in Douglas. We were there too.

Our centre pages photo spread features people from Kirk Michael who held an innovative fundraiser to help animals affected by bush fires in Australia.

A small team in the island is making a big difference by sewing washable period pads for young girls and women in developing countries.

Dave Martin of the Isle of Man Natural History and Antiquarian Society looks at some of the structures in the Isle of Man associated with Second World War radar, which potentially saved thousands of lives.

Who taught you sex education - was it your parents, your mates or school? We ask members of the public for their views about the issue and what they think of how it is taught.

Its gardens are already famous in the island, but now Milntown near Ramsey has reached a crowning achievement as it gained royal status.

A champion of the Crown Dependencies in Westminster gives some advice to business leaders in the Isle of Man in our business pages.

Plus there is all the weekend sport action in our Final Whistle section, your letters, the property sales column, the social diary, planning notices and lots of community news.

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