'A real Manx character' is one of many tributes being paid to Kirk Michael resident Norman Barron, who has died at the age of 102.
Mr Barron, a former postman, was a resident at the Corrin Home in Peel.
Six weeks ago he was a guest at the official opening of the new Peel Medical Centre where, not surprisingly, he was the oldest patient:

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