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Cowes' Ella Brown - achieved 9 grade 9's GCSE results are being handed out across the Isle of Wight today (Thursday), with students finding out how they got on before they begin their journey into further education. These results, published...

Police searching for missing 69-year-old Ashley Christie, from Southampton, believe he may well have travelled to Ventnor as he has ties to the Isle of Wight. Ashley was last seen on the other side of the Solent on Thursday 18th...

Works to upgrade the electricity infrastructure and power supplies for thousands of homes and businesses in Binstead have been completed by Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN), on time and to budget.   Taking just 1 month to complete, the...

2022’s shortlist for the annual Royal Meteorological Society’s ‘Weather Photographer of the Year’, in association with AccuWeather, includes a spectacular photo of Bembridge Lifeboat Station taken by Jamie Russell from Shanklin. Last month, the competition’s judging panel - comprising of...

A 2-man fire appliance has been transferred from Southsea to Bembridge in a bid to bring the village's fire station back on the run - more than 2 years after the last firefighters handed in their pagers. Efforts are underway...

The Isle of Wight Council is looking for local primary schools to lower their admission numbers in a bid to solve the crisis of underpopulated classrooms and prevent school closures. Instead of closing schools, the council has approached leadership teams...

A grockle down for the Cowes Week celebrations, who was arrested after driving an e-scooter 40 yards whilst drunk, pleaded guilty at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court on Tuesday. Robert John Curtis, 62, of Hindon Lane, in Tisbury, Wiltshire,...

Plans for a cider barn tourist attraction on land at the former Arreton Garden and Aquatic Centre at Hale Common have been scrapped, with permission now being sought for 20x 'live and work' units. It was back in 2017 that...

Islanders are being reminded that they can place unwanted clothes and textiles - such as outgrown school uniforms - at the kerbside on recycling day. Households can place unwanted textiles or clothes separately in a standard plastic shopping bag or...

Joshua James Hunt, who was the first person in the country to be convicted of non-fatal strangulation, has avoided an immediate prison sentence. Non-fatal strangulation became an offence in its own right, separate to assault, on 7th June this year,...