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24-year-old Sam Kewell has been disqualified from driving for 12 months and ordered to complete 80 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to drug driving. It was on 2nd April this year that Kewell, a window fitter of Whitbank...

The ex-tube stock was lifted from the rails and taken from the Island in March. 2 former Island Line trains have found a new home at a Welsh railway near Llanelli. The London Transport Traction Group has announced that the...

The deadline for mandatory COVID vaccinations in care home staff are moving ever closer, adding to staffing pressures in social care on the Isle of Wight, Those working in care homes or any professional visiting a care home regulated by...

Sovereign Housing Association is investing more than £25k over the next year to offer free training and grant funding to support entrepreneurs already running their own businesses or looking to move into self-employment. Available to all Sovereign residents, and anyone...

The Isle of Wight is set to benefit from increased investment from Arts Council England over the 3 three years as it's named as one of 11 Priority Places across the South West in Art Council England’s delivery plan for...

2 of the Isle of Wight’s largest tourist attractions are offering Isle of Wight school children an exclusive opportunity to visit the parks this October. Both parks are offering an exclusive discount to local schools and Youth Offers in the...

A Ryde man who called 999 and made threats to stab and kill Police officers, later going on to repeat these threats to the ambulance control room, has been given a 12-month community order. Richard Wetherick, 44, of Vernon Square...

From sunsets to spiders, we've got it all in this week's Readers' Gallery. Freshwater Bay ~ Photo credit Josh Thomas Colwell sundown Colwell ~ Photo credit Lisa Eldridge Classic car show Ryde Red ~ Photo credit Jane Grewcock Classic car...

Councillors have agreed to support a bid, as part of a UK-wide competition, to make Newport a city. Joining the likes of Ballymena, Dunfermline and Southend-on-Sea, the Isle of Wight Council has now expressed its intention to submit a bid...

Cannabis found on her person and in her flat led to a court appearance for 40-year-old Emma Stafford on Tuesday. Stafford, of Medeway in Lake, appeared before Magistrates accused of being in possession of a Class B drug - an...