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Red Funnel has announced that thanks to the generosity of its customers, a cheque for £5,000 has been presented to the trust whose members are working tirelessly to restore the former Red Funnel flagship Balmoral. Balmoral was built for Red Funnel...

Sandown Post Office is set to move from its current location in Beachfield Road to inside a convenience store at the other end of town, should proposals go ahead. A six-week public consultation has been launched as The Post Office...

Police are investigating a burglary in Newport that resulted in a large amount of cash, passports and driving licences being stolen. The incident occurred in Hinton Road, Carisbrooke on Friday (13th February) when a mix of Euros and British notes were...

The Earl Mountbatten Hospice has announced a £250,000 fundraising target for this year's Walk the Wight - with every penny raised going towards its community nursing team. The quarter of a million pound target was announced at a special launch...

PICTURE GALLERY: There was huge support for Go Orange Day across the Isle of Wight on Friday, with a variety of events and collections taking place to raise much-needed funds for the Island's independent lifeboat stations. Right across the Isle...

Greggs celebrated two milestones this week – the opening of its 50th franchise unit is the company’s first shop on water. The new Greggs shop, which opened last Monday on Wightlink’s flagship ferry St Clare, will serve customers travelling between...

The work the Isle of Wight Council has carried out to introduce special educational needs and disability reforms has been recognised by the government.  The council has recently launched the Local Offer, which is designed to help parents and carers...

Wightlink carried two very unusual loads for the Isle of Wight Steam Railway this week. On Thursday a railway tamper was transported across the Solent between Portsmouth and Ryde. The maintenance machinery, which lines and lifts the railway track, is rarely...

An increase in the number of emergency admissions to St Mary’s Hospital since Thursday night (12th February) is causing significant pressure on health services, according to the Isle of Wight NHS Trust. The trust say they would like to apologise to...

The Isle of Wight Council’s Executive member for public protection and highways PFI has reiterated the authority’s commitment to an already approved scheme to give vehicular access to residents of Undercliff Drive affected by last year’s landslip. Councillor Phil Jordan...