This week’s Manx Independent reveals details of a row between the Department of Infrastructure and one of its contractors.

The result could prove very expensive.

The job losses at Lloyds bank is also covered on the front page.

Inside:

Anonymity for sex case defendants until conviction is likely to become law by the summer as a new Sexual Offences Bill is currently awaiting Royal Assent.

Clare Barber MHK has called for a more pragmatic policy on collecting pets from across during the pandemic.

Why a bizarre row over Santa’s postbox ended up being discussed in the House of Keys.

After school clubs and sporting activities can resume after more than a year now the NASUWT teaching union has agreed to put its industrial action on hold.

Most local authorites are going to charge higher rates but three so far have frozen theirs.

Liam Luke Kaighin, aged 24, has been sentenced after admitted possessing heroin, assaulting a police officer with intent to resist arrest, threatening behaviour, possessing cocaine, damaging property, and possessing cannabis.

The Music 4 Motiv8 charity concert has ended up raising thousands of pounds for a local mental health charity, far outreaching the expectations of the organisers.

A free course aimed at educating people about the global climate and ecological emergency will start in a few weeks.

We previously reported on the contrasting lockdown experiences of two elderly Port Erin residents who live alone - now we revisited them to see how they found lockdown 2.0.

A move to bring forward government’s zero carbon emissions target from 2050 to 2035 has been rejected by MHKs.

One gallon of fake blood has helped a graduate filmmaker William Oates win scores of awards and nominations from international film festivals for his debut short movie. There’s more in our Island Life section.

The Christine Wild Dance School is hoping that they will be able to stage their Wizard of Oz show at the third time of trying.

There is also plenty of community news, as a page of photos from the past, our new puzzles pages and a seven-day television guide.

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Local sport edged back into life this week after a near-four-week halt brought about by the precautionary circuit-breaker lockdown .