The government is on course to cut its wage bill by 10 per cent.
Today’s Isle of Man Examiner reveals more figures in the first report on government progress.
The front page picture is of the memorial to the people killed in the Summerland tragedy.
Inside, we have more on the rise in the price of gas.
We also meet a five-year-old from Peel who has no fingers on his right hand but who is on track to be a motorcycling star.
The paper also interviews Ann Reynolds on her new role in charge of the island’s harbours as well as the airport.
With some remote places in the UK set to have a cut in the price of fuel, we find out why that won’t be happening in the Isle of Man.
The TT world series could mean that the island’s most famous ‘brand’ could be expanded elsewhere in the world by 2015. The Examiner has more.
One of the big talking points of the last few weeks in the island has been the proposed new competition to the Steam Packet from the Ellan Vannin Line.
We sent a reporter on to the streets of Douglas to find out what the public thinks about it.
On the back page we report on Richard Gerrard’s 100-mile walk win and that Cal Crutchlow has signed for Ducati.
Terry Cringle’s Times Past pages look back at a Manx Operative Society production and at a time when the police buying a Ford Zephyr (of Z-Cars fame, if you are old enough to remember that television programme) made the papers.
The island’s favourite newspaper is in the shops now.