Customers of O2, GiffGaff, Sky Mobile and Tesco Mobile are without mobile phone signal in Ventnor today (Tuesday) due to a fault with a local mast. Those living and working in Ventnor are reporting difficulties making and receiving calls and...

Vix Lowthion, the prospective parliamentary candidate for the Isle of Wight Green Party, made her third appearance on the BBC1 Sunday Politics Show at the weekend ahead of next month's General Election. Wearing an Isle of Wight badge, Vix sat...

A prominent member of the Isle of Wight Council has resigned, triggering a by-election, likely to be held on the same day as the forthcoming General Election (12th December). Chris Whitehouse, Conservative councillor for Newport West Ward for the past 6...

The Environment Agency has issued a flood alert for the Eastern Yar and its tributaries, running from Whitwell to Bembridge. 25mm of rain was recorded at Knighton yesterday (Monday) with further rain expected late on Wednesday and into Thursday. Water...

Team GB rowers Imogen Grant and Charlotte Hodgkins-Byrne presented Shanklin Sandown Rowing Club’s Ethan Walters and Riley Horrix with their medals and pennant at the awards ceremony for the 2019 Pairs Head in Chiswick last weekend. The duo, part of...

Doing business together seems to be one of the worst ideas for couples. You can often hear stories about couples breaking up because of doing business together. At the same time, there are a lot of claims that turning your...

In just a few days, the BBC will announce the Sports Personality of 2019 from a list of six shortlisted contenders. 2019 has been another outstanding year for British sport, closing out the ‘golden decade’ that brought the Olympic and...

Local bus operator Southern Vectis is offering free travel on all its buses for members and veterans of the nation’s armed forces on Remembrance Sunday.  In addition, the company will again be marking Remembrance by displaying poppies on its buses...

Specialists from Public Health England (PHE) have confirmed that there have been 12 cases of E.Coli O157 on the Isle of Wight since September, but that there have been no further cases of the infection among residents or visitors since...

Those looking to cross the Solent with Wightlink on its Fishbourne-Portsmouth route are facing significant disruption today (Tuesday) not only due to a revised timetable, but as a result of a failure with the linkspan at the Fishbourne terminal too....