The new Liverpool landing stage will not open before 2022, almost a year behind schedule and likely over its already increased budget.

Infrastructure Minister Tim Baker provided an update on the scheme to Tynwald this week where he said Covid and issues with the site had delayed work and that it is still being calculated how over budget it will be.

Due to be open in February 2021, the new terminal was first put back to July next year and is now due to be completed in January 2022.

Mr Barker told Tynwald that the biggest problem this year has been the Covid-19 pandemic and the two national lockdowns which have been enforced in England this year, bringing the building trade to a near or complete standstill.

For more information on this and the rest of November’s Tynwald sitting, see Thursday’s Manx Independent.