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The 60th Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race this August Bank Holiday weekend 28th/29th will see teams competing for the 2nd round of the UKOPRA Offshore Championship for the famous Beaverbrook Trophy. Meanwhile, the Cowes-Poole-Cowes race will also see teams racing the 2nd round...

A 4-house scheme on the main road into Cowes has been rejected by the Isle of Wight Council’s planning committee as councillors feared it was an underdevelopment of the site. Outline plans had been submitted by Alan and Ian Jones...

Plans for 149 homes in Gunville were rejected last night (Tuesday) due to ‘inadequate’ access to the development and the wider impact on highways. Local developers DN Associates made the hybrid application, comprising outline plans for 113 houses and full...

A stretch of Forest Road will be closed for resurfacing works during the night for several days. Forest Road will be closed from its junction with Whitehouse Road to a point 50 metres east (towards Carisbrooke) of its junction with...

A main road between Newport and Carisbrooke has now reopened following the completion of emergency water repair works today (Wednesday). Carisbrooke Road - which links traffic heading from Carisbrooke to Newport's High Street, West Street, Trafalgar Road, and Drill Hall...

Permissions for the time trial races in the south west of the Island to take place next April have not yet been granted. The permits from the Isle of Wight Council as highways authority and the Auto Cycle Union (ACU)...

An 18-year-old man who stole a car and proceeded to drive it whilst drunk - and without a licence or insurance - has been banned from the roads. Tyler Hetherington, of Sandown Road in Lake, was disqualified from driving and...

The Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce’s flagship event for business-to-business networking is now less than a month away. More than 50 businesses will be exhibiting at Expo 2021, sponsored by WightFibre, held at the Lakeside Park Hotel in Wootton...

An environmental campaigner has smashed the world record for swimming around the Isle of Wight. Plasterer Oly Rush from Upton, Dorset, circumnavigated 65 miles around the island in 15 hours and 9 minutes – smashing the previous best of 26...

Isle of Wight schools affected by the recent ransomware attack are now undertaking a data collection exercise. This process would usually happen at the start of term to ensure the data they hold on file is up to date and...