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The replica of the historic ship Nao Santa María will be docking at Trinity Landing in Cowes next week, offering visitors the chance to step aboard and explore a vessel that brings the story of the discovery of America to...

Island Roads is thanking road users, businesses and residents at the end of an intensive programme of road improvement work. The 3-week programme of surface dressing has now finished, subject to some final sweeping, snagging and road marking and road...

The Medina Railway Tavern in Newport could soon receive a facelift, under plans submitted to the Isle of Wight Council. Punch Pubs Ltd has lodged a listed building consent application with County Hall for a works scheme to improve the...

Monday 28th April – Friday 9th May 2025 • Elisha Evelyn Gibbons, 31, care of Josephs Way, Shanklin, pleaded guilty to dishonestly making a false statement to obtain Universal Credit. She was ordered to pay a £60 fine, complete 15...

Isle of Wight paedophile Peter Trayner, who was described in court as a high-risk offender, has admitted breaching the requirements of the Sex Offenders Register for the fourth time. Trayner, 75, of Queens Road in Freshwater, appeared at the Isle...

National newspapers reported that television newsman Michael Buerk - who presented the BBC 1 show '999' at the time - rescued an injured man from an overturned vehicle in Apse Heath on 16th May 2000. The 9 o'clock news presenter...

4 school and college teams from the Isle of Wight have excelled at the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Grand Final of the Young Enterprise Company Programme. Organised on the Isle of Wight by education charity Ed-WISE, the programme challenges...

Southern Water is 'readily destroying' Ryde’s marine life, an Isle of Wight councillor has claimed. The Appley Sewage Works has pumped out sewage into the Solent 'nearly 200 times' since January, Councillor Michael Lilley told Ryde Town Council at a...

An ‘affordable’ 3-bed flat could be built in the heart of the Isle of Wight’s largest town. Standley Property Ltd is seeking to construct an additional floor at 119 High Street in Ryde which would allow the creation a ‘mansard...

Isle of Wight man Taliesin Cornelius Tallack will appear before Magistrates next month after damage was caused to a car and a war memorial in Ventnor earlier this week. It was on Tuesday evening that damage was caused to a...