This week’s Manx Independent has some blasts from the past on the front page.

Allan Bell, John Shimmin and Eddie Teare were once mainstays of our news pages. They’ve since retired and appear a lot less frequently.

But they - and former minister and current MLC David Cretney - are returning to the political spotlight to answer questions about the losses incurred by the island’s film industry.

Also this week:

The latest on the aftermath of the flood in Laxey last week. An inquiry is announced.

There’s discontent about proposed reforms to rates.

A teachers’ industrial dispute is not over - even though they’ve been given a pay rise.

Two campaigners were invited to give talks about 5G communications in the Isle of Man last week. We report their claims and look into their backgrounds.

Neighbours of a proposed KFC restaurant in Douglas aren’t happy with the company’s survey on traffic. One explains why.

Bus Vannin has applied for a new licence to operate its dial-a-ride services. Meanwhile, some scheduled services that were replaced by dial-a-ride in the north of the island are to be reintroduced.

The Department of Health and Social Care is relying on community pharmacies to have enough of the right drugs in stock if there is a no-deal Brexit.

Taking away car parking spaces would ’absolutely kill our trade’, say Kirk Michael business owners. A former policeman comes up with a different solution.

The remarkable photo taken on Douglas beach that shows former newsreader Peter Sissons, Beatle John Lennon, comedian Jimmy Tarbuck and one-time Everton captain Brian Labone together as boys.

The government is appealing to the public to have their say on how the island can do its bit to tackle climate change.

At the Isle of Man Children’s Centre Children’s Farm in Braddan they are seeing youngsters being transformed by their experience of tending the animals and growing produce. We feature it on our Food and Farming pages.

The new deputy clerk at the freshly merged Arbory and Rushen parish authorities, Colin Kniveton, is definitely over qualified for the job.

There were more than 180 entries in the Manx Bantam Fur and Feather Society annual show. We picture some of them.

And there are pictures of dogs and their owners taking part in the Big Puppy Play Date on Port Erin beach.

Our Island Life entertainment and leisure section leads with a big musical for the weekend, the Addams Family.

Its centre pages cover Theatrefest 19.

There are 13 sports pages and the lead story is good news for Manx football fans who’d like to see a Manx team play in an English league.

There’s also 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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