Today’s Isle of Man Examiner leads on school performance tables.
One MHK wants to see them introduced so parents can find out more about the quality of their children’s education.
After a question from her in Tynwald, some data - from all but one state primary school - has been released.
Also this week:
The consultation into the future of the Steam Packet paves the way for the stipulation for a fast craft to be dropped.
We print a map of exactly where KFC and Starbucks would be if they got permission to build on a site in Douglas.
Reporter Julie Blackburn meets a family from Castletown whose children are allergic to sunlight.
We have bad news for ice skaters.
A flagship government scheme that earmarked £50m to entice business to the island has been such a flop it has been dropped.
Remember all the fuss about Lewis Hamilton’s ’Manx’ jet 10 months ago during the ’Paradise Papers’ furore? Where’s the report on that from the UK? We’re still waiting.
An 80-year-old visitor who delayed the Manx International Rally so he could photograph a steam train has been in court.
The hosepipe ban is over.
Howard Quayle meets Jeremy Corbyn at the Labour party conference in Liverpool.
Ray Lakeman, whose sons died of a drug overdose, will also address members of the party.
The Treasury doesn’t have the figures to say how many people get benefits to help towards housing costs.
A teenager has won an award for her work in a travel agency.
Tributes to Pat Corrin.
The Health Minister says his department will get back on budget after dipping £1m into the red.
The views of some local authorities on rent rises.
Our Buildings at Risk series continues with a look at Knockaloe’s First World War huts.
Why the Celtic League thinks that the government’s policy to grow the island’s population is folly.
MHK Ray Harmer’s cycle ride from Land’s End to John o’Groats.
A plan to spend £500,000 on Douglas’s sea wall.
Editor Richard Butt drones on about place names in the Viewpoint column.
Our Word on the Street feature asks people whether they use charity shops.
Two friends who followed in the tyre tracks of James Bond for a fundraiser tell us about their adventures.
A pioneer of women’s suffrange is honoured.
Plus the Final Whistle sports supplement, ten pages of business news, Terry Cringle’s Times Past nostalgia stories, your letters and lots of community news.
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