Exasperated church leaders have had to resort to installing CCTV after a spate of vandalism at the island’s cathedral in Peel.

Today’s Manx Independent tells the story.

Also this week:

After the Examiner reported a plan to dump toxic silt at a mine on Tuesday, we report doubts about the idea.

Why a silent protest is due to take place in Laxey this weekend.

Sexual offences legislation is due to be reformed. We hear what Alan Shea, who led the campaign for the decriminalisation of gay sex in the early 1990s thinks.

A couple who hit an intruder over his head with a vase.

A month after we told the story of an eight-year-old boy who was told he’d have to wait another 16 months for a tonsils operation, he’s now had it.

Tynwald’s long Manx Radio debate.

Who’ll pay for TV licences for the over-75s if the BBC stops doing it?

A man who has admitted possession of about 18,000 indecent images of children this week surrendered his bail and was remanded in custody.

Plans to lift a restriction on dial-a-ride bus services have prompted scores of objections from cabbies.

Advice on avoiding debt at Christmas.

A plan to cut the number of councillors in Douglas.

Manxwoman Aimee Ford has scooped up a gold and silver award in the world’s largest cake competition.

Visitors to the Grove Museum in Ramsey stepped back in time to enjoy a traditional Victorian Christmas. We joined them.

Red and yellow and pink and green are some of the colours which Steve Haddock’s handlebar moustache. He tells us why.

A company that employs 500 men and women has held laughing workshops as part of a drive to improve health and wellbeing.

Castletown Commissioners back plans for a major residential development at Great Meadow.

Plus there’s a look forward to the weekend’s sport, our 16-page entertainment and leisure supplement Island Life, your letters, the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide, a seven-day television guide and lots of community news.

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