The Manx Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has been underpaying its VAT after a mix-up.

Today’s Manx Independent reports more details.

Also this week:

An eight-page special featuring the names of every finisher from Santon to the end.

Bee Gee Barry Gibb has broken his silence and revealed he was the victim of attempted abuse as a child in the Isle of Man.

Tynwald has held its debate on the Lisvane recommendations for reforming the higher echelons of Manx politics. We devote a page to that and our editorial comment column.

A top Manx legal official says a legal anomaly - meaning police detention laws may have been applied wrongly - was not spotted for years.

The Royal Liverpool Hospital is set to move to a new £335m site next year and it will mean the current accommodation service for the families of patients from the Isle of Man will end.

We reveal why part of Peel Market Place has been dug up again.

A policeman from Kirk Michael is to run eight marathons in eight days to raise money for charity.

A 23-year-old Port Erin man has been jailed for 12 weeks after his second drink-driving conviction in under a year.

Planners have blocked a proposal to create a ’glamping’ site in Port Erin.

Announcements about the cost of resurfacing Douglas Promenade were misleading, Tynwald heard this week. That meant many of the public believed it was far cheaper than it actually was.

Tynwald Day will this year see the introduction of TynwaldFest to take place to the left of the Tynwald Green. Our Island Life section has the details.

We also look at work from design students at the college in an exhibition and have all the latest from the world of entertainment in the Isle of Man.

Plus:

The Friends of Pestalozzi Isle of Man group feature in our Face in the Crowd page at a charity event.

Your letters.

The Isle of Man’s What’s On guide.

Seven-day television guide

and a look forward to the weekend’s sport.

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