This week’s Manx Independent reports on a man who found fame as an inmate of the prison in Jurby on the front page.

He has been accused of threatening behaviour - and his alleged antics in the cell at the police station might shock you.

Also this week:

More people have been in court in connection with the alleged phone smuggling plot that is said to involve a prison officer.

A bar in Douglas wants an adult entertainment licence.

All the action from the Festival of Motorcycling.

Injured TT rider Steve Mercer has been told that he must have any injury claim heard in the Isle of Man rather than England.

There’s a call for rent controls to help young people, whose wages are ’stagnant’.

Two pages of coverage of the fantastic Relay for Life event at the weekend.

Concerns about traffic management around Ballakermeen High School have been downplayed by highway chiefs.

Health chiefs will give evidence to a Tynwald committee investigating the island’s suicide rate.

Additional Customs officers will be in place in the event of a no-deal Brexit, Tynwald members have been assured.

The island-based man behind a football comic strip in The Sun has confirmed he is blowing the final whistle on it after 35 years.

The industrial action planned by headteachers.

Education Minister Graham Cregeen has admitted that access to artificial intelligence is limited in the island.

The final service to remember the men who died as a result of the First World War will be held in Ramsey next month. We have details.

A preview - with a map - of Douglas’s soapbox derby.

We also look forward to the walk to the Tower of Refuge.

The Isle of Man Anti-Cancer Association will be on tour around the island next month, using one of the island-based ambulances to bring cancer awareness information to the local community. We report where and when.

The winners of Ramsey in Bloom.

A visiting TT fan who photographed legendary racer Mike Hailwood during his triumphant 1978 comeback to the Isle of Man has been asked to provide pictures for a new biography.

A campaign to keep Castletown’s wallaby in Castletown.

Police in the west of the island are appealing for information after vandals targeted a plantation.

The Taggart family at Billown Farm have been delighting the public since 2014 with their colourful Minion displays. Julie Blackburn has spoken to them for our Food and Farming pages.

Paul Kerruish from the Fynoderee Distillery is set to compete in a prestigious competition.

Sales might be up but profits are down for Douglas-based gambling technology firm Playtech - and that spells bad news for its shareholders. It has had to halve its dividend.

Our business pages report.

The front page of our entertainments and leisure section, Island Life, features Young Musician of the Year Mera Royle and finds out what she’s up to.

The grounds of Rushen Abbey were transformed into a world full of weird and wonderful fairy tale creatures at the weekend. We went along.

In our sports coverage, the latest on the Festival of Motorcyling plus coverage of lots of other sports over 12 pages.

Plus there is the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide and a seven-day television guide inside.

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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