The Isle of Man Examiner has uncovered a UK nuclear authority’s proposals to dump nuclear waste under the Irish Sea.

The full details, including the authority’s image of what is proposed, are in today’s newspaper.

Also today:

The Isle of Man is set to be placed automatically on a tax haven blacklist following a vote by MEPs last week.

The total cost to the public purse of the Covid pandemic is expected to top £200m.

The Covid pandemic is having an impact on victims of sexual and domestic abuse.

Tanya August-Hanson MLC highlighted a case in Tynwald of an 18-month-old child who had been the victim of an alleged assault.

Health bosses have explained why the Isle of Man is taking a different approach to the UK in administering second Covid-19 vaccinations.

World-class expertise in the genomic analysis of Covid samples can’t be replicated in a local lab, the Chief Minister told Tynwald.

A cartoonist has come up with drawings showing a lighter side to lockdown.

Plans for new homes in Jurby and Port Erin.

It will take the travel industry a long time to recover from the damage it has sustained from the pandemic and lockdowns, one of the industry’s leaders tells us.

Carolann Bruce tells us she had dreams that warned her that doctors were wrong when they told her she didn’t have breast cancer.

Tynwald has approved legislation allowing medicinal cannabis to be produced on the island.

A petition of doleance against planners over an application to redevelop a derelict hotel site on Langness has been dismissed.

Plans for a new Shoprite store in the south of the island may be met with resistance by the local authority unless ’more information’ is provided.

’Fed-up’ scallop crews were told not to go out fishing over the weekend because social distancing in the lockdown has slowed down processing work.

Why farmers face rising prices.

Farmers’ markets during lockdown.

More than half of businesses that took part in a survey have had some sort of involvement in one or more of the government’s support schemes during the lockdown.

Painter and decorator Jimmy Keane has hung up his brushes after more than 50 years of bringing colour into the lives of householders.

Mabel Statham will be celebrating her 100th birthday this week - and her daughter wants Examiner readers to help make the day even more special.

The imposition of income tax was to blame for a ’blight’ on the Manx birth rate, an MHK believed. That was one of lots of stories on the front page of the Mona’s Herald on January 22, 1946. We print the whole page as we look back on life after the war.

Equestrian Yasmin Ingham’s life and profession has been severely disrupted by the pandemic for the past 10 months, like the rest of us. She talks to our sports team about her plans for the future.

On the back page, the Manx National Rally has been cancelled for the second year in succession because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Plus sport, your letters, business news, our popular crossword and plenty of community news.

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