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Over 220 Ryde residents joined in a drop-in session to air their views about ideas and opportunities for the future of the town at a workshop at Ryde Castle on Wednesday 5th September. The event was the latest in a...

Island firm GTI Glazing have called in the administrators with a view to the company being placed into voluntary liquidation. The company, which is based at Somerton in Cowes, has been trading on the Island for over 25 years and...

Anyone stopped by Road Policing Officers across the Isle of Wight throughout the month of September could be asked to take the 20m number plate test, with those who fail having their licence immediately revoked. Data will be collected from each...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is supporting Organ Donation Week (3rd-9th September) by urging staff, patients and the public to join the organ donor register - and, most importantly, to tell family and friends about that decision. To highlight...

The fabrication of Red Funnel’s new £10million state-of-the-art freight ferry is on schedule at Cammell Laird’s famous shipyard on Merseyside. Red Kestrel is being built inside the main construction hall in Birkenhead from 9 individual steel blocks. Work started in...

Sophie, The Countess of Wessex will launch Wightlink's brand new car ferry during a day visit to the Isle of Wight later this month. On Thursday 20th September, The Countess will make a solo visit to the Island to undertake...

Further key works to help remedy noise and vibration issues with Cowes Floating Bridge are being undertaken this month. Earlier this week composite mesh matting was fixed on the Cowes concrete slipway  before the installation of a ‘shoe’ follows next...

The organisation that plans and buys NHS health services on the Isle of Wight is welcoming a new interim managing director. Martin Wakeley has taken on the senior leadership role for the NHS Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG),...

Wightlink Deck Officer Steve Chamberlain, who jumped into freezing waters in Portsmouth Harbour to save a man’s life, will be awarded the UK’s top maritime honour for his bravery. He is one of 19 people who will receive the Merchant...

Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, has met with Island technology company Innovative Physics – the company responsible for bringing £15 million of investment to the Isle of Wight through their successful export business based around the use of artificial...