A meeting of the Isle of Wight Council has been cancelled due to the ongoing pressures of coronavirus. The policy and scrutiny committee for health and social care was supposed to meet at 17:00 today (Monday 16th March), where items...

Plans are in place to develop Branstone Farm — the home of many Isle of Wight school trips. A joint project from Vectis Housing and the Isle of Wight Council could provide a potential 46 affordable houses for Island residents...

Proceedings turned sour at an Isle of Wight Council meeting this week when one councillor was branded a coward by another. During members’ questions at Tuesday's corporate scrutiny committee meeting, Cllr Geoff Brodie asked a question of the acting chair...

The site of the former petrol station and Central store on Victoria Street in Ventnor could be turned into 6 townhouses. In a planning application submitted to the Isle of Wight Council, Mr and Mrs Sampson have applied to turn...

Plans to build a new Isle of Wight records office at Westridge are on hold due to budget pressures. Talks had been ongoing between the National Archive and the Isle of Wight Council to provide a new premises for the...

An 'error' by the Isle of Wight Council’s planning department involving floodlights for Newport’s new football ground has led to another application being submitted. Plans for the new football ground, by the Racecourse Roundabout in Whippingham, had been approved but...

Island schools should stay open the Isle of Wight Council has stressed — although they say the situation is ‘rapidly changing’. Schools are being advised and updated daily by the Department for Education about the ongoing COVID-19 situation — which...

The message from the leader of the Isle of Wight Council about the coronavirus outbreak is ‘simple’ — “keep calm and carry on”. At a meeting of the corporate scrutiny committee on Tuesday, council bosses reassured the public there is...

School absences on the Isle of Wight have remained at largely the same level despite warning notices for parents being introduced. Overall the figure has dropped by 0.1% to 4.9% overall (secondary schools falling 0.1% to 6.1%, primary schools remaining...

A pub in Freshwater has been given a 1-star food hygiene review — after inspectors found the same problems they did 2 years ago. Environmental officers from the Isle of Wight Council inspected The Vine Inn in Freshwater, one of...