It's a jam-packed podcast this week with everything covered from Fleetwood Mac to double decker buses in Castletown and all that's in between.Sam talks us through a very busy news week, including the latest on the beneficial ownership legislation.Jess also brings us up to speed with the results from the public consultation to legalize medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp production.If that wasn't enough excitement for you Andy looks ahead to this weekend's Parish Walk, plus we look back in history to the front page of the Castletown Gazette in 1953. 

This week's news got weird...A bright pink seagull, which was spotted in the north of the island, and a businesswoman who is selling fresh Manx air in a tin are what have hit the headlines in our newspapers. 
Yes, you read right.
After hearing our photographer Dave Kneale's tale of how he tracked the 'Barbie Gull' down, we discuss Isle of Man football teams making their way to represent our nation in Wales. We also cover a shocking story about young adults who are cut adrift from the care system and have ended up living with drug dealers.
The Manx Word of the Week is revealed and we go over a Courier front page dating aaall the way back to 2011 in This Week in History, which features actor Zac Efron.

This week: Katie's back from her latest adventure to Rome. Jess tells us about Billy, the seven-year-old cousin of TT star Dan Kneen who lost his life in last year's TT, who is riding to Peel and back to raise money for a charity set up to honour Dan. Plus Jess explains the 'Life in the UK and island test' which left everyone else convinced she's the only one who would pass it.
Sam reviews the Majorcan postal service and gives a snapshot view of a heated Tynwald sitting where the future of the Isle of Man Post Office was questioned.
Andy provides a TT update: 'It's raining.'
This week in history looks back at when The Who rocked Peel in 2007. 
And with the return of Katie comes the return of Manx word of the week.

This week is our pre-TT special as we look ahead to the next two weeks. Andy brings us a taste of the coverage you can look forward to and explains how you can get your hands on the the three issues of TT News, which is celebrating its Silver Jubilee. Jess mourns the passing of two members of the Purple Helmets and we discuss why we love the motorcycle display team who are always approaching 100mph.

Plus Sam looks ahead to the fantastic local food offerings that visitors and locals can look forward to during the festival before revealing his 1950s advertising voice as he takes us back to 1958 with This Week in History. There is no Katie this week as she is once again living the jet set lifestyle but we are joined by undergraduate student Gemma who is here on work experience.

The latest #IsleofMan Newspapers' Podcast is tangential to say the least.

As always we re-cap some of the stories that have been hitting the headlines in our print titles and online at iomtoday.co.im, but we also find out about Katie's love for #Eurovision and Andy's for Aussie super-soap Neighbours. 

If that wasn't enough excitement for you there's also our usual #ThisWeekinHistory and #KatiesManxWordoftheWeek features.

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This week we discuss Arthur 'The Fonz' Fonzarelli and his appearance on something many of us carry around everyday. Jess talks about a woman from the south of the island who reached the ‘Impossible Target’ in Italy and Sam discusses the review into the island's health care system. 

Katie and Sam give us a review of Spamalot, while insisting they didn't go together. 

Plus a trip back in time and Katie's Manx word of the week.

This week, Sam gives us a lesson on the Japanese Constitution after the Manx Independent documented the time when the now Emperor visited Tynwald.The unbelievable story of the firefighter who broke his foot and ran the London Marathon.And the astounding amount of money spent at one high school on plastic bottles per year.Plus - Sam would do anything for us as he looks back at when Samantha Barks was setting BBC1 alight back in 2008.And Katie brings us our Manx word of the week.

Irn Bru-coloured wallabies, school bus fares and forgotten photos of times past. We discuss all in this week's edition of Almost Live From Nigel.
After a trip to Douglas-bound business, Morrison Photos, Jess talks about its mission to reunite island residents with their forgotten film photographs that have been stored away in an attic for decades.
The school bus fare row continues - Sam covers the story's latest opinion: put up the horse tram prices, not school ones.
Andy gives us a run down of what to expect next week in sport after news of the Isle of Man FA side beating Brentford B.
With our lovely Katie back on Manx land, she shares this week's Manx Word of the Week.

This week's #IsleofMan Newspapers podcast is as eclectic as ever with home schooling, an upcoming fair for graduates and the #LondonUnderground among the topics covered.

If that wasn't enough excitement for you, we look at what was making the headlines on April 14, 2009 and Katie has her #Manx word of the week.

We're back with another week of stories that have hit our headlines.
And we're not the only one's back - Gandey's Circus is in town again after years of touring the world. Jess talks to Ringmaster Ryan Brown and Katie gives a review of Thursday's show.

Andy had a visit from Matt Cox and Roger Cave to discuss next week's highly anticipated Beer Festival.  Sam brings us a story from the west of the island as descendants of World War One internees, who were stationed at Knockaloe, made their way to where the camps once existed.
Andy brings the excitement of Thursday night's Isle of Man Sports Awards 2018 and we discuss our regular features of A Week in History and Manx Word of the Week.