This week the Manx Independent reports on a hard-hitting court judgment concerning the death of an island teacher.

Things went very wrong in our health service, it concludes.

Also this week:

We talk to people who live in the Cherry Orchard flats about the closure of the Port Erin hotel and they tell us that the situation was avoidable.

A gibbon is born in Ballaugh.

The big clear-up operation is continuing for ex-pat Manx residents living in Florida following the devastation wreaked by Hurricane Irma. We talk to one family.

Film critic Mark Kermode’s verdict on the Film Festival.

The End to End results.

A team of disabled footballers from the island are on the way to compete in Iceland.

A 23-year-old Douglas man has been jailed after spitting in the face of a court custody officer.

It’s been 60 years since Stephen Percy won a talent competition as a 10-year-old boy in the summer of 1957. He has been back to the island for the first time since and we find out what he thinks about it now.

A sapling has been planted in memory of each of the 1,267 Manx men who died serving in the First World War.

Port St Mary’s Bay Queen Hotel is in the news again as new plans have been lodged.

A traffic barrier has been installed at one of the entrances to Ballakermeen High School to stop users using the school as rat (or maybe longtail) run.

The Manx Labour Party has hit out at health chiefs about their policy on prescription charges.

Joey Dunlop’s son Gary and nephew William have officially opened the newly extended disabled holiday accommodation at Braddan Bridge House.

A planning application has been made for the conversion of a building at 10 West Quay Ramsey into a micro-distillery that will specialise in the production of premium hand-crafted spirits.

A preview of this weekend’s food and drink festival.

Memories of Onchan in a page of old photos.

A huge photo of alumni at King William’s College who returned to the private school for a celebration.

A drunk man from Douglas who mistakenly went to his old address then broke a pane of glass in a door after falling into it has been to court.

Island Life has news from the arts, entertainment and leisure events.

The sports pages look forward to the weekend ahead.

A page of your letters.

Your seven-day television guide.

And the Isle of Man’s What’s On guide.

The Manx Independent is in the shops now.