In this week’s Manx Independent, details of a horrifying discovery in Manx waters.

Fishermen found a man’s body in their nets.

On the front page, we have a photo of warships in our waters ready for a Nato exercise.

Inside:

A man who pushed a police officer is jailed.

MHKs have learned that children who are home-schooled are not monitored.

The Isle of Man Motor Museum is not happy about changes to buses.

Neither are a number of passengers from Ramsey.

An e-gaming company stops trading.

An investigation has concluded that a serious fire in Ramsey was caused by ’smoking materials’.

Abortions won’t be refused on the basis of cost, the Health Minister says.

The decline in wildlife habitats in the Isle of Man is to be highlighted in a fascinating exhibition.

Why the Isle of Man Bank has written to its customers about changes.

Mary Bridson receives her BEM.

An octogenarian from Laxey abseils down the TT grandstand tower.

Fifteen-year-old Caitlin Mackie tells us why she has created the Manx Dementia Support Group.

Onchan and Ashley Hill pupils are asking for family photographs and memories of world war servicemen to set up an archive.

A woman needed five stitches after she was punched by her then boyfriend, a court heard this week.

Two pages of photos from Beach Buddies’ work in Jurby.

The house in Santon which has walls made from plants.

A group of friends from the island and Australia will set off on a 10,000-mile adventure across 21 countries for charity. We find out more.

Student Sam Gill tells us what he thinks of the idea of a ’youth parliament’.

A picture special on the Young Farmers’ concerts.

Plus two pages of farming news, 12 pages of sport, your 16-page Island Life entertainment and leisure supplement, the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide, a page of pictures from the past, a seven-day television guide and lots of community news.

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