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HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is reminding Self Assessment customers that they have less than a week left to submit paper tax returns and 100 days to go for online tax returns. The Self Assessment tax return deadlines for 2020/21...

Shorwell Village Store has been given a 0-star food hygiene rating by the Isle of Wight Council, meaning urgent improvement is necessary. Environmental Health inspectors visited the village shop on Farriers Way back on 18th September. Inspectors were so disgusted...

Rogue landlords who knowingly rent out unsafe accommodation are set to be penalised by the Isle of Wight Council. Proposing a new civil penalty policy, the council would have the authority to fine wrongdoing parties up to £30,000. With the...

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution has set ambitious targets to reduce its carbon emissions, demonstrating its climate leadership by being the first UK Distribution Network Operator to set science-based targets in line with a 1.5°C pathway. The targets...

The postponed Isle of Wight Council cabinet meeting is expected to go ahead this evening (Monday) despite 3 cabinet members — a third of all those on the committee — testing positive for COVID. The meeting was originally set to...

Substance misuse and how the police across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight work to prevent and respond to it has been selected as the second area for review by a group of young volunteers set up to challenge policing...

Both Sainsbury's and Marks & Spencer in Newport have applied to the Isle of Wight Council to extend the permitted hours in which lorries can make deliveries to each store. During the COVID pandemic, the Government has relaxed a number...

A new countryside award in memory of the late Bob Edney was launched recently at Fort Victoria Country Park. Bob Edney worked as a countryside officer for the Isle of Wight Council for more than 39 years before he died...

Repairs to the seawall and railings at Cowes, severely damaged in last week's storms, will begin this week. Engineers were on site early on Thursday morning to make the area safe and assess the damage left in the wake of...

Monday 11th October – Friday 15th October 2021 • Lachen Connor Downs, 23, of New close in Thorley, pleaded guilty to assault by beating and criminal damage, as well as admitting breaching a suspended sentence. He was made subject to...