An island travel agent’s doors have shut this week and its customers left in the dark.

The Manx Independent has investigated the situation and the story is on page one, with far more details inside.

Also this week, we have discovered that RBS International and Zurich are shedding jobs.

Inside:

Why there will be no winter sailings to Merseyside this week.

An insurance worker who stole more than £200,000 from his employer to spend on drugs and gambling has been to court. We have that story.

Disruption to bus services over the weekend was the result of ’unforeseen staff shortages’ - caused in part by a party that drivers attended.

The policies of every high school in the island regarding pupils’ mobile phone use.

The island’s teachers have had a higher net pay increase than the civil servant average according to a government minister.

Great news for the CT scanner appeal.

A 71-year-old has created a stone 100ft Three Legs of Mann on North Barrule. Why?

We won’t starve if there’s a no-deal Brexit, but our diet might be more limited, the government says.

Onchan MHK Rob Callister has ’implored’ the chairman of the inquiry into the area plan for the east to remove a controversial site from the final document. We have a page of coverage.

Queen scallop fishermen are being invited to apply for grants to diversify into fishing for prawns, squid or white fish.

Teenager Dean Rae has been punished after assaulting a man outside a takeaway.

One of the men behind the proposal to build a camping site at Groudle has rejected the idea that it would spoil the countryside.

Tweed jackets and moustache-wearing motorcyclists will take to island roads to raise funds for prostate cancer and mental health causes.

A page of photos from the Erin Arts Centre’s Last Night of the Proms.

In the farming pages, how farmers help the environment and some interesting points about climate change.

Ramsey Grammar School’s canteen is single-use plastic bottled water free.

The results of the Cronk y Voddy produce show.

Our 16-page Island Life entertainment and leisure section includes a look forward to LitFest and, as usual, has lots of information about all the events taking place in the island.

There’s also 12 pages of sport, your letters, the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide, a page of puzzles, a page of pictures from the past and a seven-day television guide and lots of community news.

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