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Local deal website The Price is Wight has teamed up with the Isle of Wight Festival to offer the cheapest tickets around for next year's event and is even giving Islanders the chance to win a VIP ticket upgrade. Until next...

Visit Isle of Wight (VIOW) is planning to stage a drop-in day for the Island’s local tourism industry at Newclose Cricket Club in Newport next month. Anyone involved in the Isle of Wight tourism industry will be able to meet the...

Police are this week investigating an attack on a 20-year-old man in Shanklin after he was knocked unconscious by a gang of three attackers. The assault took place between 23:00 on Wednesday and 00:30 yesterday morning on Green Lane, when...

A major new study has been carried out by health and care watchdog Healthwatch Isle of Wight to highlight the difficulties faced by deaf/hard of hearing residents using Health and Social Care services on the Isle of Wight. Communication issues...

HRH The Princess Royal joined Island-based youth charity UKSA in London yesterday (Wednesday) for the launch of their Ambassador Programme. Her Royal Highness, a Patron to the Isle of Wight charity, met with young people whose lives have improved thanks to...

An appeal has been launched to help find a donor for Perri Daniel-Jerram - an innocent 15-month-old Island girl who has been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia. Perri, from Ryde, has recently undergone intensive chemotherapy, but unfortunately the treatment has...

Two Wetherspoon pubs on the Island have won acclaim for the quality and standards of their toilets ˗ in the Loo of the Year Awards 2014. The Man in the Moon in St James Street, Newport has been awarded a platinum...

Colleagues from Sainsbury’s Regional Youth Team volunteered their time over the weekend to paint the office of The Isle of Wight Society for the Blind headquarters in Carisbrooke Road, Newport. The Isle of Wight Society for the Blind became the...

Two Island nurses have received national recognition and have been awarded the title ‘Queen’s Nurse’ for their high standards of patient care. Sharon Hopkins, a Community Matron based at Brookside Health Centre and Jenni Edgington, Modern Matron for District Nursing...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has signed a ground breaking strategic estates partnership agreement with Ryhurst to deliver a wide-ranging estates strategy that supports the Trust in the delivery of excellent patient care. The Trust is the first non-Foundation...