After the Manx Independent reported on a court case in which a man was jailed for possession of a toy gun, this week’s Examiner pictures it.

There was a lot of comment on social media after the case.

Will seeing the imitation and a real gun help to explain the case more?

Also this week:

A house is put on the market for £30m. So what would you get? We visit.

The mystery of a man who received critical injuries. Police are trying to work out what happened.

The most severe constitutional crisis the Isle of Man has faced for decades has been averted - for now.

A £100 increase in the fee for appealing against a planning decision has been branded ’stealth taxation’ by an MHK.

Another MHK has described the latest consultation on reforming the island’s anachronistic rates system ’an absolute sham’.

We are half-way through the (first?) Quayle adminstration. So how’s it doing? Our half-term report.

Sixth form students from Castle Rushen High School ran a combined 286 miles to raise more than £2,000 in support of classmate Faith Crook.

Education Minister Graham Cregeen has rejected claims that the current consultation on a new law is unfair to those who want to home-school their children.

Data from a pilot emergency night shelter will be used to help understand the issue of homelessness in the island.

An MHK has warned that putting the Attorney General in charge of both the registration and regulation of charities is ’dangerous’.

Ramsey is the one port in the island which holds the greatest world-wide interest in terms of maritime history, yet shortly the town could destroy its earliest marine links with the past, we hear in our Buildings at Risk feature.

Postal services are ’withering on the vine’, it has been claimed.

The island is finding it hard to tackle the menace of Japanese knotweed.

We ask the public for their views on medicinal cannabis.

A biker has been banned from the roads and fined £650 for drink-driving after falling off his bike with his wife on the back.

Plus the Final Whistle sports section, 10 pages of business news, your letters, Terry Cringle’s Times Past and lots of community news.

There’s a special extra this week: a 16-page supplement coinciding with International Women’s Day celebrating leading women in Manx life.

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