COVID-19

Whitbread, the owner of the Premier Inn, has re-started construction work on its brand new Sandown hotel and restaurant this week as the UK’s largest hospitality business focuses on safely continuing to build its pipeline of new hotels. The construction...

Those living in rented accommodation across the Isle of Wight will receive greater protection as the Government extends the suspension of new evictions until 23rd August. The extension, which was announced by the Housing Secretary on Friday, takes the moratorium...

Red Funnel has announced that the Isle of Wight's Independent Lifeboats, a collaboration of Freshwater Independent Lifeboat, Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat and Ryde Inshore Rescue, is being deferred as its Charity of the Year for 2020. With immediate effect,...

The Isle of Wight is winning in the fight against coronavirus COVID-19 with no new hospital deaths recorded in the past 2 weeks and no new cases since last Tuesday. In addition to the positive news surrounding the number of...

Isle of Wight building sites will be able to operate up until 21:00 under new Government rules. The government noted the construction industry needed to be able to adapt its normal practices as a number of developers started sending crews back...

Cowes-based SeaSafe Systems have been supporting the battle against coronavirus in a number of ways, from cutting scrubs for care workers to maintaining lifejackets for the emergency services. This time last year the team had completed the manufacture of 100...

The Royal London Yacht Club, organisers of Cowes Classics Week, has taken the decision to cancel this year’s regatta and plan immediately for 2021.  The safety of competitors, plus the large volunteer team who help organise the regatta, is paramount...

Wightlink has confirmed that they will be asking all customers to wear face coverings when travelling from 15th June, in response to the Government's recent announcement on mandatory face coverings on public transport. Bus, coach, train, tram, ferry and aircraft...

Due to the continuing requirement for social distancing and the current uncertainty about when theatres will be able to operate, Amy White Theatre has taken the decision not to put on their very popular pantomime at East Cowes Town Hall...

Living up to its name, Isle of Wight-based artificial intelligence company Innovative Physics has secured a series of lucrative orders despite the current trade issues caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. After a series of demonstrations from a video link to...