In this week’s Manx Independent, we report that health bosses and senior politicians are considering making it compulsory for health workers to have the Covid-19 jabs.

On the front page we highlight another strange road crossing that highway chiefs have created. One MHK has hit out at it.

Inside the paper:

Businessman Nicholas Derek Jones, who indecently assaulted a 16-year-old by groping her breast as she walked to work, has been sentenced.

We meet a couple who are the first to marry in Orrisdale chapel near Kirk Michael since 1913.

Would-be burglar Ryan Anthony David Langton has admitted trying to get into a shop in Ramsey by kicking the door and throwing a wooden pallet at it.

As the wardens leave the Calf of Man for the winter, Siobhan Fletcher finds out how the season went.

Armistice Day (November 11) and Remembrance Sunday are being marked with public commemorations around the island.

Police constable Louise Kennaugh has won the Isle of Man Newspapers’ Community Police Officer of the Year award.

Proposals to improve flood defences in Ramsey have been criticised by local politicians who are against parking spaces being removed.

Health chiefs are urging people to find alternatives to getting treatment at the hospital’s A&E department after a surge in visits there.

Offender Samuel William Gordon has admitted stealing a taxi while he was drunk.

The results of a three-way battle between the island’s photography clubs.

The Manx Wildlife Trust is appealing for donations to help rehabilitate seal pups that are ill or have been abandoned.

Statistician Paul Craine has published an analysis of the make-up of 2021’s new school years. We have a page on what we have learned about the island’s demographics.

The rising cost of building materials will affect future works on one of the island’s most prominent landmarks, the Queen’s Pier in Ramsey. The Speaker of the House of Keys, Juan Watterson, took part in the GLOBE COP26 Legislators’ Summit in Edinburgh, as vice chairman of the Small Branches Network of the Commonwealth Parliament Association.

Our Island Life section concentrates on leisure and pleasure in the Isle of Man.

On the first page Penelope Isles, featuring brother and sister duo Jack and Lily Wolter, have released ’Which Way to Happy’, their second album, the follow-up to their hugely successful debut album ’Until the Tide Creeps In’.

Kilns are being fired and ovens are roaring, as many of the island’s leading ceramicists prepare for their annual arts show.

A range of new bilingual postcards will help to help forge links between to Gaelic speaking nations.

Hundreds of singing Manx school children will join together to take part in a festive mass choir event later this year. We say where and when.

The ’Hygge’ artisan fair will take place this weekend in Peel.

Manx bard Owen Atkinson talks about poetry making statements.

We review the You Me At Six concert at the Villa Marina.

The Sovereign Art Foundation has opened the doors on its student art exhibition, turning the spotlight on 20 different pieces of art work created by Manx art students and the public are being invited to view the pieces and cast their own vote to see who will be judges the winner.

We have a picture spread.

Island Life also meets young ballet dancer Ruadhan Milsom who has recently returned from a training session at the Royal Ballet Company in Covent Garden, in London.

Among action-packed pages of sport, the Isle of Man Netball is hosting the Europe Netball Under-21 Championships this weekend, featuring sides representing England, Northern Ireland and Wales.

There is also plenty of community news, a page of your letters, Danny Kane’s fitness column, our puzzles pages, the gig guide and a seven-day television guide.

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