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The United Kingdom is no longer part of the European Union some 3-and-a-half years after the country voted to leave - including 49,173 people living on the Isle of Wight. In June 2016, the Isle of Wight firmly voted to...

24 dead pheasants - tied together in pairs - have washed up on the shoreline between Totland and Colwell this week. Local resident Shelley Cook was walking her dog along the West Wight coast yesterday afternoon (Wednesday) when she noticed...

Police have been alerted to a suspicious incident in East Cowes in which a teenage boy was approached by an unknown man asking 'would you like any sweets'. The boy was approached on Beatrice Avenue near to Queensgate Primary School...

A Year 5 student was found to be carrying a kitchen knife in their school bag at a primary school in Newport this morning (Friday), prompting a letter to be sent to parents warning them to remain vigilant.  Concerned children...

Grime in the chipping machine Failure to maintain a clean food premises has seen a chip shop in Sandown fined after being charged with a total of 6 food safety and hygiene offences. Fat Harry's in High Street, Sandown was...

Island Roads have taken the decision to commence gritting this evening (Sunday) and again tomorrow morning for known wet spots.  Winter Maintenance decision is to treat the precautionary routes commencing at 17:30. A secondary treatment of known wet spots will...

Island Roads will be out treating the roads network again this evening (Saturday). Gritters will be gritting precautionary routes from 21:00. Drivers are urged to take care.

Island Roads have this afternoon (Friday) announced that they will be gritting the Island Roads' network during the early hours of tomorrow morning.  Gritters will hit the roads from 03:00 treating precautionary routes.

Firefighters are reminding Islanders to get their chimneys swept following a fire at a property in Ryde yesterday evening (Thursday). 1 appliance was mobilised to an address on Great Preston Road at just before 18:30, with crews spending several hours...

2 roads in Ventnor have been closed this morning (Thursday) after cracking appeared within the road surface as a result of a landslide.  Belgrave Road has been closed from its junction with Alpine Road/Church Street to its junction with Esplanade...