In this week’s Isle of Man Examiner: A bus driver whose vehicle careered down a hill has won an employment tribunal.

A Covid-19 sufferer has died in the Isle of Man - taking the death toll from the virus to 25.

A call to restrict the days when fireworks can be set off has rejected by the Council of Ministers.

Speaker Juan Watterson will this month seek support from Tynwald to appoint an Auditor General, nine years after the position was first backed.

Former police officer Michael Stephen Crompton who assisted a relative with a benefit fraud has been sentenced.

Contractors should have been brought in at an earlier stage on the Douglas Promenade scheme to ’flush out’ problem areas, the Infrastructure Minister says.

Sophia Miriam Daisy Russell has been spared prison after pleading guilty to a number of drug offences and assaulting a police officer.

A 20mph zone could be introduced in Castletown next year as the government aims to clamp down on speeding.

A new law that gives anonymity to sex case defendants until conviction could lead to many cases going unreported.

The Student Climate Network says it is ’disheartened’ by the decision not to include student representatives as a group for the Climate Change Citizens Forum.

A 36-year-old scaffolder who punched a window at Pizza Hut has been sentenced.

A service provider for the returning private patients unit at Noble’s Hospital is due to be appointed early next year.

No further action will be taken against a group of key workers from Jersey accused of breaching Covid rules.

Photos of Remembrance commemorations.

Ramsey’s fireworks display.

Bob, a former TT rider and fireman, met his wife Hilary in a Peel chip shop and ’fell in love over a plate of chips’. They’re celebrating 50 years of marriage.

Teenager Ethan James Kaighin has admitted driving while under the influence of drugs after he crashed in Chester Street car park.

The long-awaited Fyn Bar has opened on Tower Road in Ramsey.

In our street interviews, we ask people what UK chains they’d like to see in the Isle of Man. One suggests a Wetherspoons pub.

A 25-year-old man has admitted burgling a neighbour’s home in Jurby and taking prescription medication.

Curraghs Wildlife Park has announced the death of one of its red panda cubs.

Adam Lee Hine has been sentenced after breaking a window at his ex-girlfriend’s home.

Plans to build a home on an historic harbourside have been given planning consent despite objections from Port St Mary’s Commissioners.

John and Marion Payne have been recognised for 30 years of service to the Port St Mary’s RNLI.

It is surprising how much emphasis was placed over the possible sale of D. H. Lawrence’s controversial novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover in the Isle of Man 60 years ago this week. See what was on the front page of the Mona’s Herald in 1960 in our page from the past.

Small building firms have been kept busy with jobs such as installing new bathrooms at homes in the island as people have more money in their pockets because they’ve been unable to go on holiday during the pandemic.

Standard Bank has signed a new 12- year lease at its Douglas home.

For possibly the first time in the English FA Cup’s lengthy history, two Manxmen - Niall Cummins and Adam Long - played in the competition’s first round proper over the weekend.

There are seven action-packed sports pages in all this week.

Plus property prices, your letters, business news, our popular crossword and plenty of community news.

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