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A controversial house conversion bid in Totland has been granted planning consent, despite warnings it will leave a family ‘homeless’. Council officers have given Plan Research permission to convert Hurstleigh, a large villa-style property on The Broadway, Totland, in the...

A group of Isle of Wight Greenpeace members, supported by Surfers Against Sewage and Plastic Free Bembridge, travelled to Westminster earlier this week (Wednesday) to take part in the Climate Coalition’s Mass Lobby.  The lobby was to urge MPs to...

The Sun at Calbourne has had a remarkable and varied history, having been immortalised in a best seller, then burnt down and rebuilt. It is thought an earlier pub existed in Calbourne on Barrington Row (Winkle Street), complete with its...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary arrested 57 people and dismantled 12 drug lines, as part of a national County Lines Intensification Week which ran last month (23rd June - 29th June). County Lines is the term used to describe...

The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service (IWAS) and South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) have partnered with the GoodSAM Responder app to decrease the response time to life-threatening cardiac arrest calls. After a call is received in the 999 ambulance control...

A major application for a renewable energy park south of a large Isle of Wight village has been conditionally approved. Earlier this week, the Planning Committee voted to accept Sunny Oaks Renewable Energy Park’s revised plan for a solar power...

Visit Isle of Wight recently hosted the Chair of the VisitEngland Advisory Board to experience first-hand what the UK’s sunniest destination has to offer. Victoria Borwick joined by London & South East Regional LVEP (Local Visitor Economic Partnership*) Lead Claire...

The restoration of Sandown Town Hall is nearing completion, with progress being made to bring the historic building back into community use. In 2023, it was announced that the Isle of Wight Council had secured £3.1million in funding through the...

• Sam Woodmore, 37, of Salters Road, Ryde – drove a motor vehicle after revocation of licence on account of disability – £40 fine, £85 costs, £16 surcharge, 3 points. • Stephen Durkin, 43, of Union Street, Ryde was sentenced...

Serial shoplifter Warren Russell, who has a mammoth 159 theft offences on his criminal record, has been handed a 10-month prison sentence after his latest string of dishonesty offences. Russell, 41, of HMP Isle of Wight but formerly of High...