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Customers using the car park at Tesco Extra in Ryde now have a maximum 3-hour stay following the installation of new Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) cameras. Previously there had been no parking restrictions in the car park, allowing people...

With just a month to go until the Island Stages Rally hits the closed roads around Havenstreet, the Isle of Wight Car Club is appealing for marshals to sign up. On Sunday 3rd November, competitors will go against the clock...

2 family villas overlooking the Solent could be built on an Isle of Wight seafront. Hamlet Court Regeneration Ltd have submitted a proposal to the Isle of Wight Council to redevelop Hamlet Court, on Cowes Esplanade. Each villa would have...

Ryde-based award-winning CBD wellness brand, Nature’s Journey, has announced that the company is now a Certified B Corporation. Founded in 2022, the plant-powered line of certified Vegan, Leaping Bunny-approved skincare and aromatherapy solutions joins a growing movement of companies that...

The Daily Mirror reported that sharks had disappeared from around the coasts of the Isle of Wight on 3rd October 1974. In an article entitled 'The Last of the Big 'Uns', the Mirror claimed that the Isle of Wight area...

One of the Island's largest schools - still known to most as Ryde High - looks set to change its name from Ryde Academy to Lift Ryde, it has been announced. Academies Enterprise Trust, which runs the Pell Lane school,...

The Isle of Wight Council has ordered the owners of the Grand I listed Norris Castle in East Cowes to make urgent repairs within the next 4 weeks. The authority's planning enforcement team, working with the conservation special projects officer,...

A section on the main Cowes to Newport Road at Northwood is to be resurfaced by Island Roads shortly, which will lead to travel disruption for those heading in and out of Cowes. The stretch between Coronation Avenue and Chawton...

A Welsh sex offender who head-butted a prison officer who was escorting him back to his cell has been told to pay the emergency worker £300 compensation. Ethan Owen, 30, of HMP Parc in Bridgend, admitted assault by beating of...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has come under fire from its own workforce after announcing a significant increase in charges for staff parking permits. Currently, staff pay between £8-14 per month in order to park at their place of...