Ratepayers are funding demolition work on part of a nightmare house that’s been empty for about 30 years.

The owner exploited a loophole to avoid doing the work.

Today’s Manx Indpendent reveals more.

Also this week:

The latest from the Louis Group trial. The collapsed investment firm owed £50m, it was suggested.

A row about the role of the island’s top civil servant in a UK tribunal rumbles on.

Jurby Junk’s contents is going up for auction. It could take two days to get through its contents.

Geoffrey Boot, the environment minister, comes under fire from two directions. One is about his own planning application and the other is from the Green Party’s leader.

A knifeman who targeted TT visitors in Liverpool has been jailed.

In a different court case, a motorist said he’d been drinking to numb toothache.

We look back at this week’s BBC documentary, which featured the Summerland disaster.

One of our reporters attended this week’s meeting about women in politics. She says what went one.

She has also been to the Calf of Man and found out more about the life of the wardens there.

A freak fire caused by sunlight refraction.

Amendements agreed for the Abortion Reform Bill.

A Lonan resident’s fight for water meters rather than water rates.

The cost of the island’s official visits to the Conservative and Labour party conferences in the UK.

A man who threw a shop sign into Douglas harbour is punished in court.

The story of a firefighter who’s performing on a single that he hopes will be No1 at Christmas.

Lots of photos for Hop tu Naa.

Plus:

Island Life, our 16-page entertainment and leisure section.

A look forward to the weekend’s sport.

The Isle of Man’s What’s On guide.

A seven-day television guide.

Your letters.

A page of pictures from the past.

Puzzles.

Readers’ photos.

And lots of community news.

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