This week’s Manx Independent leads with a story about a well-known woman who desperately needs a matching stem cell donor.

We report about what she’s going through and how you might just be able to help.

Also this week:

An eight-page special on the Parish Walk, including the names of every finisher from Marown to the end.

The deal to sell Douglas’s ’Middlemarch’ site - bounded by Lord Street and Walpole Avenue - is questioned.

The House of Keys exchange in which a minister told an MHK she could put in a Freedom of Information application if she wanted to find out more about the government’s negotiations to buy the Steam Packet.

The fire service has issued a warning after the recent prolonged dry spell.

Changes to security at the airport haven’t made much of an impact on queues.

Castle Rushen High School takes action on pupils with mobile phones.

A comprehensive report on the Legislative Council decision to pass the Abortion Reform Bill.

Magistrate Jimmy Kneen is remembered.

A local authority spent public money on a building without getting a survey carried out. What a mistake.

A dial-a-ride bus service is going to start in the north of the island.

After a public meeting this week heard a campaigner voicing doubts about vaccines, we talk to the director of public health about the matter.

There are renewed fears for Groudle’s water wheel.

A 10-year-old is made headteacher for the day at Laxey School.

A police officer accused of theft has appeared in court again.

Barry Gibb gets his knighthood from Prince Charles.

Plus your letters, the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide, our 16-page leisure and entertainment section Island Life, a seven-day television guide, a look forward to the weekend’s sport and lots of community news.