The unused sixth form provision at Carisbrooke College will officially close at the end of December and changes in early years education at Hunnyhill Primary have been given the go ahead. Described as a ‘paper exercise’, pupils at Carisbrooke College...

Council Leader Lora Peacey-Wilcox As Council Tax looks set to rise by the maximum amount for Islanders, the ruling party has said it hopes to change direction from just ‘managing decline’. The Isle of Wight Council budget is currently being...

The Isle of Wight will try again to become an International Dark Skies Park after the council unanimously agreed to support the application. If the application is approved it would only be the 4th in England, joining Northumberland, Bodmin, and...

The proposed 33% price hike for garden lovers signed up to the Isle of Wight Council’s green waste subscription has been approved. Ahead of renewals to subscriptions in September the price will rise from £6 to £8 a month, an...

An 18-month hold up with the Isle of Wight Council’s new £765,000 ‘enormous beast’ of a website must not be allowed to spiral out of control, the authority's scrutiny committee has warned. So far, £200,000 has been spent on the...

How best to ensure democracy is the question in the latest row at County Hall, as paperwork for Isle of Wight Council meetings increases. Some councillors say making all decisions in public wastes time on ‘trivial’ items, while others say...

The safety of children ‘will not be negatively impacted’ in the Alliance administration’s first budget since taking office, With council budgets being stretched even more following the impact of COVID-19 and savings plans, questions have been raised about what the upcoming...

The Isle of Wight Council ‘needs to do better’ when it comes to permanently excluding pupils from school, a senior officer has said. Figures show permanent exclusions on the Island increased by 70% in the last school year — a...

Visibly deteriorating goat meat, venison past its use-by date and waste meat overflowing from the bin led to the popular Isle of Wight farm shop 'Farmer Jacks' being slapped with a 'disappointing' 1 food hygiene rating. Following a visit by...

WightFibre has hit back at comments by a senior councillor questioning whether they are one of the worst utility companies in the UK. Councillor Karl Love recently alleged he was told inspection of the works completed by WightFibre by Island...