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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
12 minutes | Sunday, 9 February 2025
It's been proudly brewed on the Isle of Man for centuries - but how has beer fared in the news over the generations? And why? Beer for breakfast anyone?!
10 minutes | Sunday, 2 February 2025
As a recent survey into Homelessness on the Island garners some 800 responses, H looks at how the issue has been dealt with in the papers over the years . . .
12 minutes | Sunday, 26 January 2025
After another stormy weekend on the Isle of Man and the first storm of 2025, H looks back at how windy and stormy days have been reported in the papers from years gone by
11 minutes | Sunday, 19 January 2025
Following on from last week's Icy blast, H has a couple of interesting pieces left over on Hedgehogs and from Uncle Tim!
12 minutes | Sunday, 12 January 2025
H looks at all things icy in the papers of yesteryear - from scooter rallies to ice for sale!
12 minutes | Sunday, 5 January 2025
As we enter 2025, H looks back to a few local newspaper articles which appeared at the start of 1925!
12 minutes | Sunday, 29 December 2024
It may almost be New Year - but of course it's old news . . . !
7 minutes | Sunday, 22 December 2024
The three wise men travelled a long way to bring some to the stable - but in the 1850s many Manx men made a long journey in the hope of finding some on the other side of the world . .
11 minutes | Sunday, 15 December 2024
It's bright and cheery and omnipresent at this time of year - but that's not always been the case. H looks back to find out more . . .
15 minutes | Sunday, 24 November 2024
As Lord Street Flats go on the market for re-development, H looks back at some of their history in the papers and asks - were they beautiful?!
12 minutes | Sunday, 17 November 2024
As applications direct from members of the public open for a position on the Legislative Council, H looks back in the papers to see how the body has featured in the press over the years - and finds calls for the idea of a directly elected body go back a little further than you may think!
14 minutes | Sunday, 10 November 2024
As it's decided to pedestrianize Market Square in Castletown year round, H thumbs through the papers to see how the historic venue has appeared in the papers over the years. Trumpets at the ready . . . .
15 minutes | Sunday, 3 November 2024
With Hop Tu Naa just gone for another year, H looks back at the custom as reported by the newspapers over the decades - with or two surprises . . .
11 minutes | Sunday, 27 October 2024
As we hear that there will be less time for pupils to use school bus passes, H turns back the headlines to see how buses have fared over the years. It's all about money, as usual. Not forgetting the school trains . . .
12 minutes | Sunday, 20 October 2024
As it's suggested in the news that the Liverpool Arms, long-since closed as a public house, could possibly open its doors again, H looks back at how its history as detailed in the Manx papers - along with its two namesakes!
15 minutes | Sunday, 13 October 2024
If you thought large infrastructure works being years late was something new on the Island - think again! It's an old tradition as Ramsey Swing Bridge can attest . . .
15 minutes | Sunday, 6 October 2024
As bus services - or at least a lack of quite a few of them for staffing reasons - have been hogging the headlines again recently, H looks back to see how oft they've been news in the past -and yes! It's quite a lot!
16 minutes | Sunday, 29 September 2024
As we hear the cost of primary school meals is to go up to 15p to £2.55, H looks back to see how such meals have fared in the press over the years. The food has changed a bit - the cost has changed rather more!
17 minutes | Sunday, 22 September 2024
As we hear of problems in the recruiting and retention of police officers on the Island, H looks back in the papers to see what problems have faced the Island's police force over the years. Some of them might surprise you . . .!
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