This week’s Manx Independent leads with a story about Government Catering Services.

The outfit - which makes meals for schools, meals on wheels and other public sector services, has been costing the taxpayer as it has been making a loss.

Now bosses have given it a deadline make changes to improve the situation.

The full details are in the Manx Independent today.

Also this week:

As the Meals on Wheels row rumbles on and sparked a debate in Tynwald, we talk to one recipient of the service who tells us he thinks the government should rethink the decision.

A popular restaurant in Castletown has been refused an alcohol licence. The court didn’t like the applicant’s attitude.

Chief Minister Howard Quayle warns Tynwald that we shouldn’t underestimate the damage the Paradise Papers could do the Isle of Man, while one MHK suggests that politicians should be allowed to vet journalists’ material before it’s published (see the Manx Independent’s comment column to read what we think about that).

The future of Manx Radio’s government subsidy is going to be discussed in Tynwald, the Treasury Minsiter has announced.

An attempt to find an outside operator for the island’s loss-making abattoir has failed.

X Factor star Sam Black (or Smith) tells us what he’s planning to do now he’s been voted off the television talent show.

A page of photos from yesterday’s floods.

Planners have refused an application for a 72-bedroom residential care home in Port Erin.

Local politicians are deciding what should be done at All Saints’ Church in Lonan.

Peel Charity Shop has raised thousands for good causes.

Two pages of photos of events for Children in Need.

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

The Manx Independent is in the shops now.