A former butcher’s shop turned pottery studio in Niton could be coming to the end of its retail life. The shop on Niton High Street has most recently housed Tregear Pottery but with the lease of the shop ending in...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is bracing itself for an inspection from health watchdog, the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Chief executive Maggie Oldham said she could not imagine there are many other NHS chief executives who are as keen...

Performance of the Isle of Wight’s only emergency department at St Mary’s has continued to improve — despite COVID. Figures presented to the Isle of Wight NHS Trust Board last week showed what bosses called ‘a steady improvement curve’ in...

A former convent in Shanklin could get a new lease of life as flats. St Anthony’s Convent, on Beatrice Avenue, Shanklin, was founded in 1898, run by the Sisters of Mercy who established a school in the town and went...

Cllr Hastings is vying for leadership of the Isle of Wight Council A week-and-a-half on from polling day and the Isle of Wight Council is still in a state of no overall control. On a day of somewhat shocking events,...

Plans to build 70 houses in Shalfleet were presented to the parish council on Wednesday night — but met with mixed reactions. The proposed development, comprising of 2, 3 and 4-bed houses, would be built on land behind the recently...

Turnout of the Isle of Wight Council’s 2021 election was down on previous years — with more than 70,000 eligible Islanders choosing not to vote at all. Falling by nearly 4%, voter turnout in this year’s election was 36.93% —...

Nearly 45% of people aged 16 and over on the Isle of Wight are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19 having received 2 doses of the vaccine, with 73.3% having had their first dose. Latest figures show that in the week...

Tributes are being paid to former interim managing director of the Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group, Martin Wakeley, who recently died from cancer. Said to have had a ‘positive impact’ on all those he worked with, Mr Wakeley worked...

With big questions still remaining over the future leadership of the Isle of Wight Council following all the excitement of last Friday’s count, here are some key points of the election. The Isle of Wight went to the polls on...