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Mary and John Clarke, from Newport, have celebrated their 70 years as husband and wife with a party at Avondale, the sheltered housing scheme run by The Abbeyfield Society where they are both living. Mary, 90, and John, 95, were...

A street trader has been given the thumbs up to sell buckets and spades, crab lines as well as ice creams on the seafront in Gurnard, despite 19 objections. The Isle of Wight Council’s licensing sub-committee on Friday gave Carly...

The IW Steam Railway has launched an urgent £36,000 fundraising appeal to return its flagship steam locomotive Calbourne to service. ‘Calbourne’ was the first engine acquired by the embryonic Steam Railway in 1967 and the last surviving O2 Class locomotive....

Women born in the 1950s should be entitled to compensation for the Department for Work and Pension's failures to notify them of State Pension age changes, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) has found. The 3.6m affected women received...

Hartford Care is inviting the local community to 2 events at its Highfield and Springfield Nursing Homes on the Isle of Wight in the coming weeks. To celebrate Easter, Highfield Nursing Home on Queens Road in Ryde has partnered with...

Public toilets on East Cowes seafront, which are more than 60 years old and described as a ‘health hazard’, could soon be redeveloped. The current public toilets at the end of East Cowes Esplanade were installed in 1961 and are...

Dinosaur Isle and the Isle of Wight Library Service are set to receive a share of £7.4million through the Government’s Cultural Investment Fund. The funding will support important upgrades to museums and public libraries such as vital repairs, renovations and...

The Isle of Wight has the 11th highest rate of council tax out of all the councils in England, it has been revealed. From April, Islanders will fork out an average £2,029.27 to the Isle of Wight Council and its...

Monitoring equipment that will ultimately decide whether Ventnor's Leeson Road can re-open in the future is still yet to be installed - but it may all be in vain as cracks are starting to appear in the road. It was...

A total of 2 Isle of Wight Council-owned sites will be disposed of after the authority failed to find someone who would be willing to build houses there. For years the council has been trying to find a partner to...