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Major work is underway to improve some of the main stretches of highway serving Sandown and Lake. Island Roads have programmed the works early in the year to avoid the main holiday season and planned to undertake overnight to reduce...

Cowes-based offshore energy support vessel operator, Seacat Services, have confirmed a 2-year, 4-workboat crew transfer deal with DONG Energy to support construction operations at the 580MW Race Bank Offshore Wind Farm.  As offshore wind developers begin construction on current projects in the...

Photo by Gabriella Southwell The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust are celebrating success after their event, the Red Funnel Night Runner and Night Rider, attracted over 200 competitors to Cheverton Farm on the 16th April. The local charity will receive all the money...

Local deal website The Price is Wight are offering Isle of Wight Festival tickets with an exclusive £90 discount in celebration of The Queen's 90th birthday. Islanders - and those further afield - are now able to pick up an official...

An innovative Isle of Wight company has been handed Britain's top business award for its part in boosting the country's international trade. Spinlock, based in Cowes, has today (Thursday) been named as the winner of a coveted Queen's Award for Enterprise for...

Shaping the destiny of dance music, the rave oasis that is Temple Island has lined-up the heavy hitters to take Bestival into The Future this September. Curated in conjunction with Street Team and spanning all flavours of beat behaviour from hip-hop to jungle...

A state-of-the-art tidal energy generation project, to be constructed off St Catherine’s Point, has today (Wednesday) been given approval. The Marine Management Organisation has given the go-ahead to the offshore elements of the Perpetuus Tidal Energy Centre (PTEC). The onshore...

145 more Islanders are back in work according to the latest Jobseekers Allowance (JSA) figures. A total of 1,635 people were claiming the unemployment benefit on the Isle of Wight last month (March) compared to 1,780 in February. Year-on-year 260 more...

Southampton’s long established CityLink bus service has been renamed Quayconnect as part of an upgrade to the buses used on the route between Red Funnel and the town. The Red Funnel Ferries funded service, operated by Go South Coast subsidiary...

Cowes-based South Boats IOW Ltd's latest Severn Class Lifeboat refit has been completed, trialled and successfully accepted back into service for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). The ‘Eric & Susan Hiscock (Wanderer)’, one of 46 Severn Class Lifeboat’s in...