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The National Trust has announced plans to improve the visitor facilities at Compton Bay car park, as part of a wider investment in the Compton landscape. The rather run-down-looking car park, which is an incredibly popular tourist hotspot, will be...

The Isle of Wight Council has pledged to do all that it can to support parents of pupils at Chillerton and Rookley Primary School to find alternative education for their children. The pledge comes after the school said it faced...

On this day in 1901, representatives of Isle of Wight cricket clubs met with the intention of forming an Isle of Wight Cricket Club at the invitation of Mr H.C. Damant of Cowes. The proposal was enthusiastically agreed and a...

Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society members were hard at work this week putting the finishing touches to rehearsals for this year’s Pantomime, Cinderella, which will be performed at Trinity Theatre in Cowes in early December. Written and created by...

South Hampshire councils have called on Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey to reinstate a review of water company permits in the region. More than half of Southern Water's treatment works in South Hampshire have no limit enforced on the amount of...

A 20-year-old who punched another man outside a halfway house in Ryde has pleaded guilty to assault at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court. Harry Mortram, 20, of Clarendon Street in Newport, appeared in front of Magistrates on Tuesday. Ann...

An Isle of Wight primary school has slipped from ‘Good’ to ‘Requires improvement’ in its latest Ofsted inspection. Inspectors visited in September and found the quality of education and the leadership and management of Hunnyhill Primary School, in Newport, required...

The Isle of Wight Council is offering free off-street parking in all its long-stay car parks to support Small Business Saturday (3rd December). All long stay car parks run by the Council will be free of charge between 12:00 and...

A Ryde man charged over his alleged part in an immigration offence that saw 12 people smuggled onto the Island in 2020 has seen his case sent to the Isle of Wight Crown Court, although he is currently residing overseas....

A 61-year-old man from Leicester who is alleged to have offered a teenage girl money to watch him 'play with himself' has pleaded not guilty to the offence today (Tuesday). Sajid Damania, 61, of Leicester, denied the offence of attempting...