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The Isle of Wight Council is asking people to share their views on the future of the Local Council Tax Support scheme. The scheme, which provides support for people on certain benefits and low incomes, and since 2013 has been...

Leaders from the Isle of Wight and Ofsted senior officials met yesterday afternoon (Thursday) following the recent 'ghetto' saga. Under discussion were the improvement journey for children’s social care and schools and the next steps to improve outcomes for children...

WightAID, a new locally based foundation created to support charities on the Isle of Wight has been officially launched this week and has already made donations to 6 charities. Local business leaders gathered to celebrate the launch of The Wight...

Photo: Caroline Bonarde Ucci/CC 3.0 Filming has started at Osborne House in East Cowes, the seaside residence of Queen Victoria which has been chosen as a location for the feature film Victoria and Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Dame Judi...

The Illegal Money Lending Team, who investigate and prosecute loan sharks, are putting forward multiple pots of £5000 of Proceeds of Crime Money to help subsidise community projects that assist in raising awareness of loan sharks. This large sum of...

Michael Wilks, Provincial Grand Master for the Masonic Province of Hampshire and Isle of Wight will lead the Island’s Freemasons on the Isle of Wight Day Parade on Saturday 24th September, accompanied by the Island’s Assistant Provincial Grand Master, David Perkis....

The Island's MP, Andrew Turner, met representatives of the leading education charity, Teach First, on Tuesday to discuss how best to deliver a boost to school standards across the Isle of Wight and to establish it as a “beacon of...

The next phase of the works to construct a new roundabout and pedestrian footways to connect St George’s Way to Pan Meadows and the new ASDA store is set to get underway at the end of October, with a one-way system...

The presence of 2 Boeing 727 jets flying across the Isle of Wight has sparked local interest today, but there is no cause for concern - Oil Spill Response Ltd (OSRL) have been conducting the flights as part of an exercise...

The number of unemployed people on the Isle of Wight during the month of August increased by 40 compared to July, figures from the Office for National Statistics show. Unusually for the time of the year the number of Islanders...