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13 minutes | Sunday, 16 June 2024
H looks back to see how "Belching Bertha" as she was once known (or at least the chimney was) - Pulrose power station has fared in the news over the years. Nuclear power in the 1960s anyone?
14 minutes | Sunday, 9 June 2024
H looks back through the papers to see how that essential to the TT - visitors - have fared in the press over the last 100 years!
19 minutes | Sunday, 2 June 2024
As the TT roars into action for another year, H looks back at the chequered history of the chairs in the event as featured in the press
16 minutes | Sunday, 26 May 2024
As questions are raised about the declared government aim to grow the Island's population to 100,000 by 2037, H looks back through the papers to see the ups and down's of resident numbers over the years. Not perhaps, as much as you'd think . .
14 minutes | Sunday, 19 May 2024
As Port Erin Commissioners re-elect their chair for a sixth year, H looks back at some Commissioners' headlines from years long gone! It's another hotbed of political activity . .
13 minutes | Friday, 10 May 2024
The Mayor of Douglas is oft in the news but what stories have there been over the years? H looks back . .
16 minutes | Friday, 3 May 2024
H looks back at some coverage of the Guild over the decades - from thousands attending the Palace to Haydn Wood conducting and adjudicators' comments being published!
13 minutes | Friday, 26 April 2024
Taxis have been back in the news again after recent controversial price hikes - and it seems arguments over various aspects of the taxi industry have never been that far from the papers over the years!
16 minutes | Friday, 19 April 2024
There's just been a by-election there - but has this hotbed of political fireworks been much in the papers over the years? Of course it has . ..
15 minutes | Friday, 12 April 2024
As the Island sploshes its way through the joys of a sodden spring, H looks back at the papers to see if rain has always been something which has depressed us on the Island. What do you think the answer could be  . . .?
11 minutes | Friday, 5 April 2024
As a local grower announces they are to stop producing local potatoes, H looks back at how the humble spud has fared in the news over the years . 
12 minutes | Thursday, 28 March 2024
H delves back into the papers to see how Easter has been reported over the years. And why did a "Special Correspondent" call it absurd in the IOM Times of 1939?
13 minutes | Friday, 22 March 2024
With Ballakermeen High School restricting students' access to lavatories during lesson times, the issue of young people's behaviour has been back in the news. Is it worse than hitherto? Or do we just like to think it is . . . .? H looks back
11 minutes | Friday, 15 March 2024
Coastal Erosion has been an issue for literally hundreds of years but we're still pondering what to do about it - and who should pay. No news there then . . . 
14 minutes | Friday, 8 March 2024
An old industry on the Island now long gone - but remembered on recent Mannin Lines. Who remembers the saltworks? And was there salt in the papers?
12 minutes | Friday, 1 March 2024
They only happen every four years - so are they news? Of course they are . . . the language of leap years through the decades.
12 minutes | Thursday, 25 January 2024
A sea of change.. but not that much change.
10 minutes | Saturday, 20 January 2024
From today's roadworks to a host of accidents, the TT and selling turnips - Braddan Bridge has never been far from the news it seems!
10 minutes | Friday, 12 January 2024
As the number of wild wallabies hop on to the Mannin Line, H looks back at how they've fared in the papers over the years - and whatever happened to Rufti Tufti . .. 
11 minutes | Friday, 5 January 2024
As industrial action within maritime workers who crew the island's ferry service sploshes on, H looks back and finds it's nothing new! Who'd have guessed . . . .
9 minutes | Friday, 29 December 2023
H looks back through the yellowing newspapers of the years gone by to see what they had to say about the New Year and how people celebrated it . . 
13 minutes | Friday, 22 December 2023
H looks back at more Christmas stories from the papers of yesteryear including shops, Xmas in Belgium and encouraging abstinence!
11 minutes | Friday, 15 December 2023
H looks back to centuries past to see how the festive season featured then - as it still does today!
10 minutes | Friday, 8 December 2023
As a new children's book about a red squirrel makes the news stream this week, H looks back in the papers to see how much they've featured in the papers over the years.
10 minutes | Friday, 1 December 2023
As yellow weather warnings for frost abound on Manx Radio, H looks back at some frosty stories in the papers over the years. Did you know they used to sharpen horses shoes?!
13 minutes | Wednesday, 22 November 2023
As MNH receives an award for its restoration of the Great Laxey Wheel, H looks back in the papers to see if it's always been treasured and well preserved. Spoiler alert - of course it hasn't!
11 minutes | Sunday, 19 November 2023
Whilst it's easy to think that the damaging storms we get on an annual basis are a recent phenomenon, a look back at the papers suggests - as usual - this is not the case!
10 minutes | Friday, 10 November 2023
As the concept of a National Airline is back in Tynwald you may wonder is this news? Well yes - but of course it's old news . .at least 63 years old in fact!
9 minutes | Sunday, 5 November 2023
In the second Guy Fawkes themed Old News. we look  back at bonfires of yore .  . in war, in peace, for coronations of just for fun. And there was a lot of it back in those carefree days . . .
10 minutes | Friday, 27 October 2023
It's that time of year again, and every year there seems to be more news stories on restrictions on the use of fireworks . . . but how have they featured in the past? Rather more positively it seems!
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