When we were putting together this week’s Manx Independent, we looked again at the famous roundels on Douglas Promenade.

The advice from the police and the Department of Infrastructure is that they’re not roundabouts.

But hang on. The DoI said we should treat them like roundabouts in the summer.

Read the whole story - and see the evidence - in today’s paper.

Meanwhile, the front page lead this week features a cautionary tale about the limitation of the Isle of Man’s health agreement with the UK’s NHS.

If you’re going away, there’s information you really need to know about.

Inside the paper, we meet a woman whose dog saved her life. She tells us how.

The Manx police are helping in an investigation following the death of a woman in Cyprus.

A trial has started for a new service to transfer seriously injured patients by helicopter from the island directly to the UK for treatment.

How do you get an NHS Covid Pass? We explain what you have to do in a special feature.

The government is proposing to make changes to its first-time buyer schemes.

The annual coast to coast walk to raise money for a charity that helps blind people is to take place on Sunday.

Twelve-year-old Linken Bevan, from St John’s, has just won a go kart racing championship at Thruxton racetrack in Hampshire. We find out more about him.

Douglas-based Unity Dance School has taken part in competitions in England. We report how well its members did.

Manx Wild Bird Aid was called out to help a bird in unusual circumstances - the falcon was covered in cooking oil.

William Gary Entwistle, a 22-year-old Onchan man, has been sentenced for having a lock knife in Douglas nightclub.

Sarah Louise Adamson this week admitted a benefit fraud committed over five years which resulted in her being paid more than £50,000 she wasn’t entitled to.

Two pages of photographs from the Relay for Life charity fundraiser at the National Sports Centre.

In Island Life, our pleasure and leisure section, the UK 80s band China Crisis will play a special tribute to Colin Hinds, a Manx musician who died last year.

Comedian Jason Manford looks forward to visiting the Isle of Man.

The new Manx Bard is 24-year-old Owen Atkinson.

In the Manx Wildlife Trust column we learn that orchids have had a good year and one of its reserves has had a display of over 1,300 pyramidal orchids (Anacamtpis pyramidalis).

The Greatest Variety Show, hosted and organised by rising Manx stage star Alexandra Slater, saw many of the island’s best-known faces from the world of musical performance. We have two pages of coverage.

This week’s Manx Independent is a must for football fans. There is an eight-page pull-out dedicated to the next season.

The back page’s main story is about the start of the season and we report that there has been a record total entry of almost 1,000 participants for this weekend’s Gran Fondo cycling event.

There is also plenty of community news, a page of your letters, our puzzles pages, Pullyman, the gig guide and a seven-day television guide.

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You can also read it online if you buy the digital edition. It should be uploaded by 7.30am.

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