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OLD NEWS 07 SEPTEMBER 2025 Ice Cream

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10 minutes | Sunday, 7 September 2025
As an MHK says he wants to see local Ice Cream remain on the menu for primary school dinners, H looks at how Ice Cream has featured in the papers over the years. . .
14 minutes | Sunday, 31 August 2025
As primary school meals on the Island are made healthier, H looks back at how the provision of school meals has featured over the years in the papers . .
13 minutes | Sunday, 24 August 2025
From a cancellation before WW2 to selling the event in the UK, the MGP has never been far from the news . .
8 minutes | Sunday, 17 August 2025
A planned breakout from the internment camp in 1917 - partly foiled by artist Archibald Knox . .!
9 minutes | Sunday, 10 August 2025
In the last of the holiday mini-series of Old News, H looks back to happenings in 1921 . . including a drop in population and licensing issues
10 minutes | Sunday, 3 August 2025
H looks back at some news from 1911 . . a year which saw the first aeroplane to be seen on the Island . . taking off from Nobles Park . . . and strikes on the horse trams!
6 minutes | Sunday, 27 July 2025
In this week's edition, Howard looks back at a radio station planned for Creg-ny-Baa in 1938 and an event involving Laxey Wheel.
6 minutes | Sunday, 20 July 2025
H looks back at the incredible beaching of a massive whale on the Island, almost exactly 100 years ago!
7 minutes | Sunday, 13 July 2025
H looks back 100 years to news of 1925!
12 minutes | Sunday, 6 July 2025
It's Tynwald Day tomorrow - not on the 5th though . . but that's old news of course . .
16 minutes | Sunday, 29 June 2025
As PSM commissioners work to deal with the smell of rotting seaweed, H looks back at how it's been dealt with around the Island over the years. There's no shortage of it around the Island's coastlines - but is it a boon or a bane?
13 minutes | Sunday, 22 June 2025
As school attendance is raised in the Keys, H looks back at how attendance - or truancy - has featured over the years - and why blackberries used to be a problem. . .
10 minutes | Sunday, 15 June 2025
Never far from the news and looking for new members - how have the council fared in the press over the years? Pretty well it seems with a good row never far away . .!
12 minutes | Sunday, 8 June 2025
It's not always the case that the sun shines on the Isle of Man - ask any TT fan - but when it is sunny does it make the news? H looks back .
15 minutes | Sunday, 1 June 2025
H looks back at more stories from the past about the Island's most iconic sporting event
16 minutes | Sunday, 25 May 2025
H looks back again at how the TT has featured in the papers over the years. There's no shortage of old news here!
12 minutes | Sunday, 18 May 2025
H looks back at some of the thoughts recorded in the Island's newspapers over the years on the subject of warm weather. Get your flannels on and keep off the buses !
13 minutes | Sunday, 11 May 2025
As we celebrate the 80th Anniversary of VE Day, H looks back at how it was celebrated here on the Isle of Man
16 minutes | Sunday, 4 May 2025
As the concept of making Douglas Head a conservation area is considered again, H looks back at the ups and downs of the iconic area in the papers over the years . .
12 minutes | Sunday, 27 April 2025
H gets to the bottom of things as he looks back at how silt around the Island's harbours and watercourses has been an issue for - well quite some time!
14 minutes | Sunday, 20 April 2025
As we hear that the Island is apparently on target to attract half a million visitors a year by 2032, H looks back at how visitor numbers have featured in the papers over the years . .
13 minutes | Sunday, 13 April 2025
As a major new exhibition of the work of Archibald Knox opens at the Manx Museum, H looks back at how his life and work featured in the press over the years . . . and why he took the Steam Packet to court!
9 minutes | Sunday, 6 April 2025
With the ongoing debate and new environmental impact studies taking place with regard to possible wind turbines being built, H looks back at how generating power from the wind has featured in the papers over the years. As usual . .it's nothing new . .
12 minutes | Sunday, 30 March 2025
H dredges up some old news about this most beloved, essential but oft forgot aspect of life on the island . . .
10 minutes | Sunday, 23 March 2025
As the Steam Trains to Port Erin start again for a new season, H looks back at some train stories of yore . . . and sees some correlation with current views, as is usually the case!
12 minutes | Sunday, 16 March 2025
With one of the few remaining Eisteddfods on the island - The Braaid Eisteddfod - about to take place, H looks back at how the once popular evenings have been reported over the years.
17 minutes | Sunday, 9 March 2025
H looks back at how the scouting movement have fared in the news over the years. Dib Dib Dib!
15 minutes | Sunday, 2 March 2025
As the news features a search for the perfect Manx menu, H looks back at the papers to see how local fare has fared . . . . . .
17 minutes | Sunday, 23 February 2025
Following recent news that unemployment on the Isle of Man is up again, H looks back at the jobless figures and how they have featured in the papers over the years . .
15 minutes | Sunday, 16 February 2025
As we hear of news that trees from the Island's plantations are to be harvested and some timber exported, H looks back at plantation news featured in the papers over the years
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