In this week’s Isle of Man Examiner, the government has responded to our Freedom of Information request about the decision to buy the Steam Packet Company.

We’ve learned the principles for the purchase, the government’s options, the hole in the Steam Packet’s pensions and a suggestion that freight should be removed from Heysham.

This week’s Examiner has more details.

Thousands of people visited the Food and Drink Festival over the weekend. Our coverage includes the official Manx National Dish, two pages of photographs and an interview with Countryfile’s Adam Henson about Manx produce.

Also this week:

The Mount Murray hotel is to open again after the fire. But it’s got a new name.

How the Isle of Man is being cited as proof that the Earth is flat.

The patients recalled after a breast screening scare have found out their results.

The Manx economy is growing again.

An MHK says Ramsey needs a new transport hub.

Plans for a big housing development in Castletown have been altered.

A Manx teenager is one of the faces of Alder Hey Children’s Hospital’s 2018 fundraiser, ’Be a Superstar’.

Our politicians must have been cogitating hard over the summer. There are 85 Tynwald questions.

Oxfam’s charity shop is to close.

A former England football star is going to help a charity for diabetic children.

Billy Robert Sumner, from Peel, who committed two assaults, has now been jailed.

Harry Owens is heading to the Republic of Burundi to teach the art of beekeeping.

We ask people in the street which charities they support.

There’s a big review of the island’s health and social care system, which is said to be unaffordable.

Cruise ships have been a boon for tourism, the government says.

A project that’s giving free sanitary products to school pupils.

Plus comprehensive reporting on the weekend’s sport, business news, your letters, Terry Cringle’s nostalgia pages and lots of community news.

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