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SPILT milk caused traffic delays for motorists this morning after a lorry load of milk bottles ready for distribution smashed across the sliproad leading onto Medina Way, Newport. Officers from Hampshire Constabulary alongside the highways department from the Isle of...

GURIT, the Island's largest private sector employer, has welcomed plans for wind turbines to be erected on the Island. The company, based on Riverway Industrial Estate, Newport, have explained how wind turbines on the Island would be good for business and the...

LIFEBOATS from two RNLI stations went to the aid of a 41 foot yacht with six people aboard yesterday evening, that had gone firmly aground on a receding tide on Quarry Ledge just east of Thorness Bay. The Bermudan-rigged sloop Sea...

A Belgian yacht with four men on board had to be towed into Cowes this morning by the local RNLI lifeboat after alerting Solent Coastguard it had broken its rudder. The 30 foot sloop Baflos was on passage from the...

THE local authority, the Isle of Wight Council, has launched its annual budget consultation that once again includes an online simulator that gives residents the opportunity to say where savings should made and what areas should be the spending priorities...

AN oil painting dramatically depicting a yacht that lost its rudder in heavy seas while competing in a night-time race around the Isle of Wight in the late 1960s is to be hung at the new RNLI lifeboat station at...

THE former headteacher of Carisbrooke College, who resigned from the post in March of this year, is set to become the Interim Principal of Sandown Bay Academy, it has been revealed. Although stating she was returning to the mainland to...

ISLAND Police are continuing to investigate an allegation of assault in Newport. Two men approached a dark green 4×4 car parked in traffic in Drill Hall Road at around 17:30 on Tuesday 26th June. It’s alleged one of the men...

A YELLOW weather warning has been issued for the Isle of Wight today by the Met Office. Areas of heavy rain will continue to extend north and west across many central and northern parts of England, much of Wales and...

ISLAND Police are investigating a report of an elderly man being injured in a collision in Ryde. It’s alleged a dark coloured Ford Mondeo was reversing from George Street into Roundhouse Mews at 11.45am on Monday (2nd July) when the...