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2019 in pictures

Wallabies, floods and protests: picture highlights from 2019 in the Isle of Man.

Snow on the Snaefell mountain road - January 30, 2019

'An evening with Nigel Farage' at the Palace Hotel in Douglas

'An evening with Nigel Farage' at the Palace Hotel in Douglas

A two-week-old baby ring-tailed lemur, born at the Curraghs Wildlife Park

Primary school pupils 'take over' the Tynwald chamber to debate environmental issues at the Bright Futures event in the Legislative Buildings in Douglas

A wooden wizard sculpture in Tholt y Will glen

The first iron girder is removed from Queen's Pier, Ramsey, as part of a volunteer-led restoration project

The first sections of replacement steelwork are lifted into place on the Queen's Pier in Ramsey, as part of a volunteer-led restoration project

The opening of the Centre for WW1 Internment, which offers a glimpse into life in the camp at Knockaloe during the first world war

Osruth's Cross, a Norse cross slab dating from the 10th Century, is removed from St John's parish church after its base had become dangerously unstable

A student climate strike outside the Tynwald buildings

A service to commemorate the loss of Mona's Queen III, which was destroyed during the Dunkirk evacuation

Veteran Hector Duff, photographed for the 75th anniversary of D-Day, where he landed on Gold Beach

Sunday, June 2: Gary Thompson MBE, Clerk of the Course for the Isle of Man TT races, prays for the weather to clear. The 2019 event was heavily disrupted by rain and fog, forcing the organisers to run an unprecedented five races in one day

Friday, June 7: Dean Harrison wins the 2019 Senior TT race

A brahman bull at Ellerslie Farm in Crosby

Competitors in the 2019 Parish Walk

'The Time Is Now' climate change protest, pictured outside the Legislative Buildings in Douglas

'The Time Is Now' climate change protest, pictured outside the Legislative Buildings in Douglas

The distinctive blue coloured eye belonging to 'Marble', a therapy horse from Manx Equitherapy, pictured at the 2019 MannKind festival.

The peleton passes through Glen Helen during the fourth and final round of the Manx International Stage Race, part of the men's UK National Road Race series

Nine-year-old Fergus Quayle wins the Young Handlers class with his Limousin calf at the 2019 Royal Manx Agricultural Show

Exploring the Great Laxey Mine

Members of the Isle of Man Home Guard Reenactment Society at Castle Rushen during the 'Island at War' weekend. The castle keep was used as a lookout post and the dungeon as an air raid shelter

Elliot Baxter wins the 2019 Bikestyle End2End Mountain Bike Race

Dozens of hand-painted wallabies appeared around the island for Hospice Isle of Man's 'Wallabies Gone Wild' fundraising initiative

Emergency services respond to a major incident after heavy rainfall led to severe flooding in the village of Laxey

Emergency services respond to a major incident after heavy rainfall led to severe flooding in the village of Laxey

Chief Minister Howard Quayle visits the scene in the aftermath of severe flooding in the village of Laxey

Her Royal Highness Princess Anne braves the weather during a visit to the Isle of Man

Peel put an end to St George's unbeaten run in the Canada Life Premier League, with a hat trick from winger Lee Gale

Amy Martin of the UCM student council goes incognito at an all-male yoga class on International MenÕs Day

Having lived off-grid for 18 months, Dan Richardson faces eviction from his hand-built cabin. His home was nominated for a UNESCO Biosphere award

Competitors prepare for the start of the 2019 Douglas santa dash

The Young Farmers Christmas tractor run passes through the village of Kirk Michael

100-year-old D-Day veteran Hector Duff was awarded an OBE in the Queen's New Year Honours