The Department of Education, Sport and Culture will ask Tynwald to approve the closure in February.

Tynwald backs a government plan to plug health spending with £8.5m from the National Insurance Fund.

Mark Cavendish says it will take “a few weeks” to recover after having surgery on a broken collarbone that ended his Tour de France.

Anthony Lyons brought cocaine worth £24k to the island in the post and assaulted a man with a hammer.