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The purchase by the Friends of St Mary’s Hospital of two portable ultrasound bladder scanners ensures that continence service can be much more effective and efficient when carrying out assessments of people in their homes. Together costing £12,000, the scanners...

Tourism businesses across the Island are celebrating after being crowned at The Beautiful South Awards 2015. Hosted by Tourism South East, the tourism elite of South and South East England gathered at Brighton’s Grand Hotel on Wednesday night (2nd December) for...

Significant improvement has been made at Carisbrooke College according to Ofsted, who say the Newport school is taking effective action in order to become a 'good' school. Carisbrooke College went into Special Measures back in April 2013, however by April of this year those measures...

Representatives from the My Life a Full Life programme attended a special reception hosted by the Prime Minister at 10 Downing Street last month. Members of the My Life a Full Life Board, Dorothy Moir (Citizen Representative) and Karen Baker (Isle...

This weekend marks the third annual Small Business Saturday and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is helping to make it the best one yet. FSB is calling for people to throw their backing behind the independent Small Business Saturday...

Isle of Wight Council's trading standards service is advising parents to be mindful when buying Christmas novelty items that look like toys. Festive objects, such as illuminated items like a miniature house or snowman, are not classed as toys and...

Plans to create a new, state-of-the-art waste treatment centre on the Isle of Wight have taken a step forward. New waste contractor Amey has submitted a planning application to redevelop the existing waste site at Forest Park in Newport -...

The government's new Universal Credits scheme will be implemented on the Isle of Wight from Monday (7th December). Universal Credits will only affect new applicants but will replace several out of work, low-income benefits and tax credits with a single...

A member of the Isle of Wight Council has this week called for an urgent investigation into payments of almost £300,000 to the consulting firm Atkins, as part of an on-going dispute between the Council and Island Roads over the...

VIDEO: Hampshire Constabulary are this week launching their month-long Christmas drink-drive reduction campaign. The ‘Where will you end up tonight?’ campaign, which carries the hard-hitting theme of a mortuary to emphasise the potentially fatal consequences of drink-driving, is aimed at reducing the...