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The Isle of Wight Council’s Lead Member for Children’s Services, Cllr Chris Whitehouse, has warmly welcomed the news that the Government is to spend more than £500 million a year driving forward a new bid to improve technical training for...

Can you grow the tallest sunflower? Or the widest, or most sunflowers on a piece of land? That is the challenge being set by Earl Mountbatten Hospice as they continue to celebrate their 35th anniversary year in 2017. The sunflower...

Increased investment in public toilets, decorative lighting and the public realm are key features of Shanklin Town Council's Budget for 2017-18, which sees the maintenance of key community activities without any increase in the precept. The Town Council are to fund an Enforcement Officer to...

UPDATED: Hovertravel are to run a shuttle service between Ryde and Southsea tomorrow (Thursday), it has been announced.  The cross-Solent operator say that due to technical reasons, a normal timetable will not be in operation. Instead, a shuttle service will...

Southern Water have confirmed that work to replace a water main at Brading is to carry on for another 8 weeks, resulting in continued disruption for motorists traveling between Ryde and Sandown. The scheme on Morton Road got underway during the first week...

Red Funnel has won a Feefo Trusted Service award, an independent seal of excellence that recognises businesses for delivering exceptional experiences, rated by real customers. Created by Feefo, Trusted Service is awarded to businesses that use Feefo to collect genuine...

New figures show the Isle of Wight, at 98%, is ahead of the South East and national averages for 16 and 17-year-olds taking part in education, employment and training. The 3 month figures for November 2016 to January 2017 show that...

As part of his ongoing efforts to engage Island business representatives with education providers, Leader of the Isle of Wight Council, Councillor Dave Stewart organised a very successful meeting at County Hall last Thursday (2nd March). Those present considered issues and...

L-R: Charlotte Starling, Robin Richards, Michelle Brooking, Donna Denness, William Milford, Katie Bowley and James Baldwin The Sloop Inn at Wootton has now re-opened its doors to guests following a 3-week closure, changing from a Crown Carvery to Stonehouse Pizza...

Jon Long - or 'Jonathan Longathan' Almost £3,300 has been raised for the local charity Wight Brainy Bunch, thanks to the success of a comedy night at Ryde Fire Station. Laughter filled the station's appliance bay on Sunday evening as it...