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A new café and bakery is opening its doors in Newport, adding a fresh new flavour to the Island’s growing culinary scene. Treats & Eats Bakeshop is the creation of Constantin and Nataliia Kyrychenko, a husband-and-wife team who moved to...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary has issued nearly £500,000 in fines to drivers using their phones on the road in the past 2 years. The force handed out 2,349 Fixed Penalty Notices to drivers between 2023 and 2024, new...

An Isle of Wight woman has been recognised in the King's Birthday Honours List for 2025. Charlotte Carter JP has been awarded an MBE for her service to the Administration of Justice across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Mrs...

Lidl has issued a recall of its Harvest Basket Hash Browns amid safety concerns that the frozen product may contain pieces of metal. The Food Standards Agency has confirmed the recall applies to 750g packs of Harvest Basket Hash Browns...

CycleWight staged a commuter transport challenge from outside County Hall in Newport to Cowes earlier this week, demonstrating how cycling can be a faster and more sustainable travel option during peak traffic times. On Tuesday, members of the Isle of...

The Isle of Wight Council has confirmed a number of changes to its service during next weeks' Isle of Wight Festival, which gets underway on Thursday (19th June). Due to the location of the festival, at Newport's Seaclose Park, a...

Upstairs office space in the centre of the Isle of Wight’s county town will be converted into 2 new ‘first-time buyer flats’. County Hall has accepted Jon Carter’s prior approval application to install 2x 1-bedroom flats on the first and...

A couple of seaside chalets in Gurnard will be demolished, paving the way for a new 2-bedroom house. The council has waved through Mr and Mrs Huxford’s planning application to demolish 15 and 16 Marsh Road in Gurnard – number...

The Government has not ruled out the Isle of Wight Council remaining a unitary authority in a new memo to local authority leaders. Whitehall has welcomed ‘additional thinking’ on the Isle of Wight’s ‘exceptional circumstances’ in feedback on a Local...

Richard Quigley MP has secured a Backbench Business debate in the House of Commons to call for urgent reform in the handling of mole removals, as part of the Zoe's Law campaign. The debate specifically calls for the mandatory histological...