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8-year-old Chloe Barnicoat is set to deliver tubs of chocolate with handwritten 'thank you' letters to the staff at St Mary's Hospital this Christmas. Chloe, who attends Nettlestone Primary School, has decided that she would like to thank the NHS...

Visit Isle of Wight (VIOW) held its annual tourism conference at Lower Hyde, Shanklin on Wednesday, with Tom Stroud as compere. Will Myles, Managing Director of VIOW, gave an overview of the 2020 marketing creative for the Island. Next year’s...

St Mary's Hospital's catering department has been deemed as needing major improvement having been awarded a shocking 1-out-of-5 food hygiene rating. An official inspection of the department, which supplies food and drink across the hospital, was carried out by the...

A £2million National Lottery fund has opened today (Saturday) to celebrate the National Lottery’s 25th Birthday, with thousands of grants available to anyone with a great idea to bring their community together. Designed to help communities across the UK join...

Cadbury’s Secret Santa postal service is once again set to visit the Isle of Wight, giving Islanders the chance to secretly send FREE chocolate to someone special tomorrow (Saturday). A pop-up kiosk is expected to take up position on Western...

Wow! What a week it has been - and so creatively captured by our readers.  Sunrise through the eye of a lens (ball) (Ricky Santos) Agapanthus at Freshwater (Geoff Simmons) Robin on a wall at Causway Freshwater (Geoff Simmons) Sunset...

Pre-early bird tickets for next year's Jack up the Summer festival have gone on sale through local deal website The Price is Wight today (Friday). Islanders and visitors alike are being given the chance to bag themselves exclusive pre-earlybird weekend...

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) is encouraging its customers to prepare for the colder months ahead and the potential for extreme winter weather to cause disruption to electricity supplies. The UK’s electricity networks are amongst the most reliable in...

Mike Pavitt A third of businesses in the South are concerned about the potential impact Brexit will have on their suppliers and customers, according to new research from insolvency and restructuring body R3. A survey of 1,200 senior business financial...

SPIIOW – the Isle of Wight’s Suicide Prevention and Intervention organisation - is reflecting on the past 12 months since their first suicide intervention. It was on 20th November 2018 that the team carried out their first suicide intervention. Since...