A Manxman who's just returned from Svalbard has spoken of the dangers posed by polar bears.
It comes a day after 17 year-old Horatio Chapple was killed in an attack by one of the giant animals.
Robert Brown, of Douglas, and his wife were on a cruise which called at the Arctic Islands.
He says they received dire warnings about the bears:

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