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Police have been alerted to a suspicious incident in East Cowes in which a teenage boy was approached by an unknown man asking 'would you like any sweets'. The boy was approached on Beatrice Avenue near to Queensgate Primary School...

Hunnyhill primary school pupils have been given a valuable safety lesson by Island Roads staff. All school children attended the talk on the need to take additional care near roadworks and also the importance of wearing the correct safety equipment....

The Medical Eye Centre in Newport is to close its doors at the end of the month, with patients set to be moved to Ryde. Located at Grays Walk off Scarrots Lane, The Medical Eye Centre has been a long-established...

With continued wet weather being experienced across the Isle of Wight, the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have issued some handy advice for driving safely in the rain and on flooded roads. January has been a particularly wet...

Mountbatten is celebrating 30 years of Walk the Wight in 2020 and registration for this year's extra special event opens on Friday. Walk the Wight has raised more than £5million since it began in 1991 and is a major fundraising...

More rough sleepers across the South East of England will be helped off the streets and into safe accommodation, following the announcement of £11.4million in funding, Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick MP has announced today (Tuesday). Nationally, this funding is a...

A memorial car meet in memory of 19-year-old Michaela Logan, who was tragically killed in a road traffic collision near Arreton earlier this month, is to be held in Ryde. The event, which is being supported by local Police, has...

An Island Roads scheme to strengthen Blackrock Bridge at Alverstone, on the Sandown to Newport cycle path, is being frustrated by vandalism and forced entry to the work site. The project is being undertaken by Island Roads as part of...

The Secretary of State for Communities, Housing & Local Government, Robert Jenrick, has decided not to call in the planning application for the proposed ice rink and leisure centre at Smallbrook near Ryde. On 17th December, the Isle of Wight Council’s...

Analysis undertaken by the Local Government Association into the impact of the government's proposed changes to local funding has shown that more cuts could be on the way for the Isle of Wight, but Bob Seely MP has pointed out...