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Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service (HIWFRS) is supporting National Hoarding Awareness Week (13th-17th May) to help raise awareness of the fire risks associated with hoarding. There is often a strong link between hoarding and fire risks...

Newport Justices refused to evict a family with 10 children from their home in Quay Street, it was reported on 15th May 1924. Newport Corporation were attempting to evict father-of-10 H. Plumbley from his Quay Street house on the grounds...

A new collaborative community interest company, Wight Digital Radio CIC, has been formed by Isle of Wight Radio and Vectis Radio with the intention to bid for the new DAB radio multiplex licence covering the Isle of Wight. The licence...

After almost 40 years of dedicated service to the people of Newport, Councillor Shirley Smart is stepping back from public life and has resigned from Newport & Carisbrooke Community Council. Due to her continuing ill health, Shirley has decided now...

Southern Vectis is marking Dementia Action Week - 13th to 19th May - by highlighting its commitment to making local bus services more accessible for some of its most vulnerable passengers. Bus services across the Isle of Wight provide a...

Representatives from islands across the UK joined the Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove to discuss housing last Wednesday (8th May). The 4th Islands Forum focussed on the housing challenges faced by islands wherever they are in the UK, such as...

All traffic heading in and out of Ventnor will soon have to divert via Whitwell as The Graben is set to be closed for a 2-week period, Island Roads has revealed. Newport Road - 1 of just 2 routes into...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has announced that His Majesty King Charles III is to become the new Patron of the lifesaving charity - and his first experience of the charity's work was right here on the Isle of...

Amazon World has welcomed a 10-month-old Red Panda from Belfast this month as part of an endangered species breeding programme. Flint arrived on the Island last week following a transfer from Belfast Zoo, having been flown across the Irish Sea...

Monday 29th April – 10th May 2024 • Daniel Jackson, 20, of Nightingale Road, Newport pleaded guilty to speeding (46mph in a 30mph). He was fined £213 and handed 4 penalty points on his licence. • Dylan Powell, 28, of...