An advocate is so concerned about the plight of prisoners during the pandemic has written to the UK’s Secretary of State for Justice - who’s responsible for ’good governance’ of the island - about the matter.
We report what he says and the Department of Home Affairs’ response.
In addition, we report on the jailing of another man who broke lockdown rules.
Also this week:
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The island’s first Covid-19 hospital admission, who was released from the Intensive Care Unit this week, is ’doing well and improving each day’. We talk to her family.
It’s the 75th anniversary of VE Day tomorrow. We get a glimpse of what it was like in 1945 on one Douglas street.
Lockdown has had a big toll on people’s mental health, the Chief Minister says.
A scheme has been launched that enables residents to buy emergency workers in the island a well-deserved pint.
Remote live teaching of students during the lockdown may not be equitable, it has been claimed.
It was the moment supporters of Ramsey’s Queen’s Pier have waited years to see. What was? See the paper to find out.
The government’s commitment to biodiversity has been under the spotlight again after verges full of wildflowers were hacked back.
Dr Martin Rankin, who made front-page news last month when he opposed the first easing of lockdown measures, is in the news again.
This time he’s wearing a dressing gown and going for a long walk. But there’s a bit more to it than that.
In our farming pages, there has been a bit of a disagreement in the agricultural community about growing crops.
We meet a baby wallaby and print what must be the cutest photos in the paper.
The lockdown might be on, but it doesn’t mean the Guild is off. Find out how competitors in the music and speech fesival are taking part in our Island Life section.
Our sports team have been following Christian Varley’s amazing attempt to run marathon after marathon. He features on the back page.
The Manx Independent also has your letters, What’s On, a page of puzzles, a page of pictures from the past, readers’ photos, a seven-day television guide and lots of community news.
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