 
                            Douglas City council says it's collected more rates than it had this time last year.
When the local authority meets today, it'll consider a monthly financial review covering June.
It says 65.2 per cent of rates had been collected so far.
That compares to a figure of 61.4 per cent for the same time last year.
 
                                         
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