This week’s Manx Independent reports that dredging can take place in Peel harbour next year.

There’s just one snag. Harbour officers still do not know where the potentially contaminated material will be dumped.

Also this week:

A Falklands veteran has appeared in court after punching a police officer.

New regulations could be introduced for people who home school their children.

A couple plan to spend their first night after their wedding in a white van - we find out why.

A Douglas councillor is campaigning for a dark and dismal corner of the capital to be improved.

An MHK got so worked up when a seagull stole his nephew’s sandwich that he tabled a question for Tynwald.

We look at telephone landlines. Who still uses them? Is it right that we have to pay for one if we really just want broadband?

Results from the Royal Show.

The start of the Festival of Motorcycling.

A government survey of the Manx people shows that respondents feel very safe and has some interesting statistics about attitudes to immigration.

After an inch of rain fell in two hours, a number of places flooded and roads were declared unsafe.

Plans to convert a derelict railway gatekeeper’s cottage into the sort of house a ’Hobbit’ live in have been turned down.

One of the passengers on the runaway Snaefell tram has been in touch to praise the workers on the vehicle.

More photos of people who visited Isle of Man Newspapers’ tent at the Royal Show as they posed within ’front pages’.

Waiting times for ear, nose and throat operations have been cut.

The Island Life section includes information and news about entertainment and leisure - including a preview Scottish singer K T Tunstall’s gig next week.

Plus a look forward to the weekend’s sport, your letters, a page of nostalgic photos, readers’ photographs, your seven-day television guide, community news and the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide.

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