In this week’s Manx Independent we report on the Department of Infrastructure’s ideas to improve access between the inside and outside of the TT course.

A company this week admitted failing to comply with health and safety regulations at the 2019 Isle of Man Food and Drink Festival after an incident in which a girl broke her leg.

Offender Liam Priestnal has been sentenced to jail for breaching coronavirus regulations.

An overwhelming majority of island businesses believe there should be mandatory border testing - but the health minister doesn’t want it.

Peel’s new lifeboat hasn’t been called out at all but it’s had to go to Fleetwood to be scrubbed clean.

Pollution in a stream by the old fairy bridge is believed to be linked to an old landfill site.

A brother’s argument with his siblings over the estate of fishing firm boss John Edward Skinner is the subject of a high court ruling.

Two men - Jake Christopher Corrin and Declan McBurnie - who picked up a package containing cannabis from a field in Pulrose have appeared in court.

Government minister Tim Baker has defended bus chiefs’ position in the row with Eric Corkish, who cannot take his mobility scooter on buses.

A page of cheque presentations, showing the island’s support for good causes.

A picture special from Peel’s Oie Houney fire festival.

A preview of the Gaiety Theatre production of The Wind in the Willows.

The latest chapter in the restoration of Ramsey’s Queen’s Pier.

One of our readers is appealing for family history information about a Manx soldier who was killed in action in Italy on January 21, 1944, at Monte Cassino during the Second World War.

Two Remembrance-related exhibitions, one in Ramsey and one in Peel.

Photos from a blaze at an industrial estate.

The Office of Fair Trading was caught out by Manx Gas’s announcement last month that it was changing its prices.

Health Minister David Ashford has pledged to publish data on waiting times for mental health appointments as soon as possible.

The Island Life section includes the Manx Wildlife Trust column. You’ll be amazed what you don’t know about dung beetles.

Paul Quayle made the journey from the Point of Ayre to the Chasms throughout the past year to create ’The Narrow Road to the Deep South’, a collection of 23 haiku poems, which he released in October. Island Life has more.

We also catch up with Bruno Cavellec, who has opened his latest exhibition, ’My Mother’s Son’ at the Isle Contemporary gallery at Tynwald Mills.

There are 10 pages of sport altogether.

Outright TT lap record-holder Peter Hickman has signed for the new FHO Racing team for the 2021 road racing season and British Superbike Championship. See the full story on the back page.

There is also plenty of community news, as well as Pullyman’s column, your letters, our gig guide, our puzzles page and a seven-day television guide.

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