This week’s Manx Independent looks at amended plans for the proposed KFC/Starbucks development on Peel Road, Douglas.

The fast food company and the coffee chain have completed surveys on traffic.

Also this week:

Good news for House and Home staff.

Letter deliveries cut to five days a week.

Two heroin smugglers have been jailed for more than four years each.

Tynwald members asked for emergency sitting before Brexit.

A Douglas bar that’s applied for an entertainment licence reveals its plans.

The latest plans from tourism chiefs to entice more visitors to the Isle of Man. At least they’ve been imaginative.

We ask Aldi whether it plans to come to the island.

The latest on the east area plan inquiry. This time it concentrates on the proposed Camlork development near Union Mills.

The Manx Diabetic Group is seeking assurance from health chiefs that annual foot checks will continue to be a part of the proper care of diabetic patients.

A chef has been fined after refusing to leave the area after being denied entry to the Outback bar, in Douglas.

A number of Laxey residents have set up a group opposing a sewage proposal for the village.

A man has been jailed for four and a half years for indecent assaults on two other men as they slept.

An arson attack in Douglas.

Motorists from the south of the island are enduring long delays and tailbacks as they journey north.

The annual Onchan Horticultural Society show.

Peel’s high school headteacher speaks out against the creation of a sixth-form college to serve the whole island. We also include the winners at the prize-giving ceremony.

A public meeting will be held into long-awaited plans for a new road design to improve pedestrian safety in Kirk Michael village.

Danielle Margaret Thomason of Douglas has been convicted of fraud after she used a colleague’s cash card to buy herself goods.

The Food & Farming pages meet Selasi Gbormittah and learned from the former Bake Off why this isn’t his first visit to the island and why Paul Hollywood is a lot nicer that he appears on TV.

A day facility for oncology patients has officially opened at Noble’s Hospital.

Meet the Isle of Man’s chef of the year.

Two gluttony stories (one featuring our editor): People take part in hotdog and ice cream eating competitions.

Pictures of people taking part in Royal Air Forces Association Battle of Britain Parade, which was held on Sunday in Douglas.

There’s also 12 pages of sport, 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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