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It's hoped a new online Disability Awareness Training package, put together for a Manx charity, will lead other organisations to expand their knowledge on the subject.

Thought to be a first for the Island, the course has been put together for Sailing for the Disabled by the training service Disability Awareness alongside Governance People Limited, which provided its services free of charge.

Manx Radio has been speaking with Sailing for the Disabled CEO Carole Quayle, Andy Hodkin from Disability Awareness and Governance People Limited's Leslie Foster and Robert Duncan.

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It's been 10 months since Crogga's licence to extract gas from an area off the Island's coast expired.

And now, a bid in Tynwald for government to invite applications for a fresh hydrocarbons exploration has been squashed by the Island's lawmakers.

In the sitting of parliament this week, Douglas Central MHK Chris Thomas called for a report with recommendations for debate and decision to be brought back by July next year.

But he didn't get the backing of the court - as Siobhán Fletcher reports.

A man in Kirk Michael is attempting to complete a mammoth 31 marathons in 31 days.

Every day this month Albert Johnson is pounding the pavements as part of efforts to raise money in memory of his friend Graham Brew, who took his own life several years ago.

So far more than £1600 has been contributed towards his fundraiser for Autism Initiatives UK.

Manx Radio's Lewis Foster has been catching up with Albert this afternoon, after he completed marathon number 11.