This week’s Manx Independent has a hard-hitting front page looking at two Covid outbreaks.

For one in a care home a criminal investigation began. For the Steam Packet outbreak a top civil servant decided there was no criminality.

The contrast raised questions in Tynwald. We also talk to an Abbotswood staff member about it.

Also this week:

It will soon be easier to boot out the Chief Minister.

Disgruntled Manx Gas has released a video on social media after talks with the government collapsed.

Prison officer Robert Sewell, who was jailed for smuggling a mobile phone into jail for use by a drugs gang, has lost an appeal against his sentence.

The man appointed to head the Department of Education after the resignation of its old chief executive in the wake of a damning report has been given the job full time.

Manxman Andrew Baker has completed his three-month charity row across the Atlantic, having made landfall in Port St Charles, Barbados.

As a doorstep vigil was held in the island for Sarah Everard, who was killed in London, we talk to women here about violent attacks.

Another big name is to close its Strand Street shop and all the staff will lose their jobs.

Stuart McKenzie is leading the Isle of Man’s contribution to a project in which volunteers around the world donate the use of their idle desktop, laptop and smartphone processors for biomedical research.

Campaigners opposed to plans for a new UK coal mine believe it will be a ’Trojan horse’ for a nuclear waste disposal facility under the Irish Sea.

In the week of St Patrick’s Day, we look at the effect the patron saint of Ireland had in bringing Christianity to the Isle of Man.

Marjorie Dunning has won an over 90s short story competition, writing about her wartime memories of the island.

Health Minister David Ashford has admitted his frustration at the delay in updating the law to allow the prescription of medicinal cannabis.

What’s being done to reach people whose first language isn’t English to publicise vaccinations.

The story of talented musician Ivy Benson, who entertained people in the Isle of Man for many years, is told in a new book.

On the day the current lockdown was announced, 11-year-old Thomas McAleerin the Isle of Man was preparing to open his first solo exhibition. We see what his work is like in Island Life.

In his Island Life column Pullyman remembers the White City fun fair.

There is also great sports coverage, plenty of community news, a page of your letters, our new puzzles pages and a seven-day television guide.

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