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UPDATED: Quality Island food, handmade crafts and street entertainment will be on offer at Newport’s weekly 'Market on the Quay' which gets under way this Friday (24th August). The perfect place to enjoy some tasty cooked food and watch the...

The BBC are to broadcast a nostalgic look at 50 years of the Isle of Wight Festival told entirely by the performers, promoters and punters who were there…then, and now. These days, there may be more music festivals in a...

With the August Bank Holiday just around the corner, thousands of people will be out enjoying the beautiful countryside this weekend. So CLA South East, which represents landowners and farmers across the Isle of Wight and beyond, is urging the...

Local doctors are advising people not to fall into the trap of assuming – wrongly – that only A&E remains open over the bank holiday when in fact a network of pharmacies will be keeping their doors open across the...

Islanders have been treated to the unusual sight of a superyacht moored on the River Medina following the arrival of Archimedes in East Cowes this week. The 68m vessel, which is worth a whopping $100million, has made the Isle of...

Almost 100,000 cemetery records are now available at the touch of a fingertip with the launch of a new records website by the Isle of Wight Council. Aspiring genealogists will be able to search the burial ground information and 72,000...

A planning application seeking permission to build almost 60 homes in St Helens - 20 of which would be social housing - has been lodged with the Isle of Wight Council. The development would be built on land that is...

A Merlin helicopter from HMS Queen Elizabeth was scrambled to rendezvous with Bembridge RNLI Lifeboat on Thursday - but thankfully it was only a training exercise. Volunteer lifeboat crewmen donned their waterproofs and launched down the slipway at Bembridge following...

It's all hands to the deck at Wightlink as the company prepares to welcome passengers on board the multi-million pound 'Victoria of Wight' for the first time later this month. The systems are being put through their paces, the outlets...

 The team at The Isle of Wight Distillery are celebrating a double victory at the prestigious International Wines & Spirits Competition (IWSC) awards. The Distillery picked up a silver award for both the original Mermaid Gin, and the HMS Victory...