In this week’s Manx Independent, we confirm how much Manx Radio will be paid for running TT commentaries - and the fact that the contract was not put out to tender.

We also look into the sale of Manx Telecom. The telephone-numbers deal means that the company that’s bought it has paid the equivalent of more than £3,000 per island resident on the company.

Inside:

The Isle of Man is taken off the EU’s tax grey list. But some UK MPs still have the island in their sights.

The options for patient transfer from England include EasyJet and the Steam Packet, we reveal.

There are calls for the troubled public sector pension scheme to be shut.

Environment Minister Geoffrey Boot writes for us, to say how the government is trying to tackle climate change.

We go to Port St Mary’s ’repair cafe’ to find out what people have brought in.

There’s more on the Ramsey marina development.

Meanwhile, a study is starting into proposals for a berth for cruise liners. Whereabouts should it go?

After the Ben-my-Chree failed to sail for four return journeys this week, we have been reminded just how important it is to grow local produce.

Why it’s the end of an era for the Curraghs Wildlife Park in Ballaugh.

There’s bad news for people who want to get to or get out of Jurby.

Two police officers have been thanked by the owners of a Ramsey guest house for their support investigating an incident of damage at their property.

A man who bit a female police officer and told her that he had Aids has been jailed.

A proposal to charge for parking in Castletown is provoking opposition from residents.

It’s the end of the Year of Our Island.

Education chiefs have been accused of acting in a ’thoughtless’ manner of their handling of a proposed switch in secondary school catchment areas for some Douglas primary pupils.

Drug money totalling £7,980 was intercepted at the sorting office, a court learned this week.

Our 16-page Island Life section is packed with news from the worlds of entertainment and leisure.

The centre pages include a report and photos from a winter pantomime in Ramsey.

Our sports team look forward to the weekend’s action.

Plus there’s the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide, a seven-day television guide, your letters, news from this week’s sitting of the House of Keys, and lots of community news.

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