COVID-19

An emergency appeal launched to help the Island’s RSPCA branch provide animal welfare services throughout the COVID-19 outbreak and beyond has reached over £20,000. RSPCA Isle of Wight branch manager Suzanne Pugh said the local organisation has been heartened and...

A great-grandmother says her social life has been ‘busier than ever’ since lockdown, thanks to local friendship group the Oddfellows. Despite COVID restrictions being in place, Monica Duncan, has ‘zoomed’ across the UK, socialising with Oddfellows members nationwide, and even...

Weekend operations, private treatments and a third MRI scanner are just some of the actions being mooted at St Mary’s Hospital to help catch up with the backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. As the Island’s only hospital tries to recover...

Planning enforcement officers have been inundated with complaints over the lockdown period as people have taken the chance to do some jobs around the house — but may not have the right permissions in place to do so. At a...

The Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) is seeking applications for a share of a new £375,000 small to medium enterprise (SME) grant fund. The Restart and Recovery & Kickstarting Tourism Grants have been created specifically to help SMEs in the...

3 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed on the Isle of Wight, bringing the monthly running total to 16 so far. The latest official figures show that 1 new case was listed on 9th September and again on 10th...

Assistant Chief Constable Maggie Blyth of Hampshire Constabulary has written a letter to locals addressing the new coronavirus restrictions. It is now illegal in England to have a social gathering of more than 6 people - dubbed the 'Rule of...

Troubles getting a COVID-19 test on the Isle of Wight has led heads of public health bodies to call on the government to do something to help a ‘faltering system’ — as people are travelling on and off the Island...

New data published by the Office for National Statistics reveals that another COVID-19 related death has been recorded on the Isle of Wight. In total, 86 people have now died on the Island having tested positive for COVID-19. This number...

Letter to the editor - 15th September 2020 "Myself and my husband are both key workers and came down with a mild cough on Sunday. "We took the advice that we have been given throughout this pandemic to stay home...