Manx Independent

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The Manx Independent is a tabloid weekly newspaper in the Isle of Man. It is published every Friday.

It is owned by Isle of Man Newspapers, which is now part of Johnston Press.

Its sister weekly newspapers are the Isle of Man Courier and the Isle of Man Examiner.

[edit] History

It was founded as a broadsheet in 1987 after a strike that closed the Isle of Man Examiner, the Isle of Man Times, the Isle of Man Gazette and the Manx Star.

The Isle of Man Examiner title was later revived by the Halifax Courier Group, owner of the Isle of Man Courier. For a short time the Manx Independent was published three times a week.

It became a twice-weekly tabloid and was owned by Mercantile Publishers and then Morton Newspapers from Northern Ireland in the early 1992.

It was sold to rival newspaper group Isle of Man Newspapers in 1993, resulting in closure and the redundancy of all staff. It was then revived later in that year in to its current weekly format.