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Health leaders have issued a fresh plea for more people to support the COVID-19 vaccination programme here on the Isle of Wight as dedicated teams work to ensure everyone receives their booster by 31st December. The appeal follows the Government...

Solent NHS Trust’s Child and Family Services is launching an online portal to help parents and families access information and support during pregnancy, birth and beyond - all written and approved by local health professionals. The digital portal – Family...

The Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) has connected with Digital Boost, a free online platform, to provide essential digital advice, skills and guidance to grow small businesses and charities in the region. The government-funded programme offers 1-to-1 expert mentoring support...

Planning permission for the onshore elements of the Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre at Ventnor has been granted by the Isle of Wight Council, paving the way for the project to be fully up and running by 2026. The Council last...

Islanders who want to have their say on the future of an Isle of Wight primary school only have a few days left to give their views. The Isle of Wight Council is carrying out a public consultation on options...

An application to extract gravel from land at Wootton over the next 10 years will not now be submitted to the Isle of Wight Council until February. Island company Wight Building Materials is seeking permission to extract material from Palmers...

Controversial changes for the Ryde Interchange transport scheme are a step closer after an application was submitted to start demolition works. The fate of the 1930s public toilet and cafe block on Western Gardens had been partially signed since the...

Exactly a year ago today (Wednesday) 98-year-old Kenneth Killeen became the first Islander to be vaccinated against COVID-19, with a staggering 112,000 others taking up the offer of vaccination since. An army of vaccinators have been supported by volunteers over...

26-year-old Alice Cannell from Ryde has been banned from driving for 23 months after crashing head-on into a car in Brading last month. Cannell, of Abingdon Road, was more than 2-and-a-half times the drink-drive limit when she was involved in...

The Isle of Wight remains Omicron free, despite the new COVID-19 strain becoming more prominent nationwide. Speaking in the House of Commons yesterday (Monday), health secretary Sajid Javid told MPs 20% of the COVID cases on Friday looked to be...