This week’s Manx Independent leads with a story about liquidators who’ve sent hundreds of letters to former customers of a failed garage.

Inside:

Questions on queenie quotas.

A special supplement featuring winners of our competition in which school pupils designed advertisements for Manx companies.

The island was sunnier than anywhere in the UK last month, official numbers say.

More details of the area plan for the east have been revealed. One MHK says the figures behind it are bonkers.

Tynwald will be asked this month to consider a proposal to extend Port Erin’s boundary to include the whole of the Ballakilley estate.

This year’s Isle of Man Film Festival has been cancelled. But organisers won’t say why.

Ramsey Grammar School’s new sixth form study centre has been named in honour of war veteran Hector Duff.

The Chief Minister has praised a secondary school for announcing it will stop selling bottled water from September.

A cardiac arrest survivor praised friends and emergency services for their quick actions which saved his life.

The Gaiety Theatre witnessed a celebration of talented Manx singers, actors, dancers and comedians with the Extravaganza of Mann.

This year’s Promenade Relay has proved a great success, even with its relocation to Marine Drive.

Removal of thousands of names from the voters’ list in 2015 was ’unlawful’, a Tynwald Day petition to be lodged by Peel commissioners will claim.

A Douglas man has been fined £1,000 for resisting arrest and being drunk and disorderly.

An old, iconic building in the heart of Ramsey will be put back to its original use this weekend by a local drama group.

Children have been given insight into the mechanics used as part of the process of getting milk from a cow into their fridges at home. Our Food and Farming pages have more.

Ash dieback: what you need to know.

Musician Alfie Boe is to appear on the Isle of Man next week.

How you can round off Tynwald Day with an evening of music, dancing, bagpipes and a fire show.

News from the courts.

Our new pet competition.

Plus there’s our great sports section, the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide, a page of pictures from the past, a seven-day television guide and lots of community news.

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