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Plans to turn a once-popular Sandown hotel into a house have been refused, again. The owner of Melville Hall Hotel in Sandown wanted permission to convert the 20+ bed hotel into a single house, but Isle of Wight Council planning...

A Ventnor man has been banned from the town's Tesco Express and ordered to pay compensation of £68.30 after admitting 4 counts of theft from a shop. Nino Cavanagh, 30, of Trinity Road in Ventnor, admitted 4x theft from a...

Isle of Wight Council cabinet members have approved both the introduction of a second home tax and a revised empty property charge — though a final decision will not be made until later this month. If approved, second homeowners will...

A freehold block of 19 lock-up garages in Newport have sold at auction for £110,000. The garages, at the back of 31 Whitepit Lane, and let at £9,120 per annum, were among 135 lots listed across southern England by Clive...

Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely has written to Jacob Young, the Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, asking to meet to discuss securing further regeneration support for the Island. This would utilise the Towns Fund or other government...

More than 50 new Isle of Wight parking restrictions are being introduced, but a few have hit the brakes, for now. Yellow lines for Alvington Manor View in Gunville and waiting restrictions on Wellington Road in Carisbrooke have been postponed....

An Isle of Wight man who was found with a knife and cannabis when stopped by Police in a known drug-dealing location in Lake, is to be sentenced at the Isle of Wight Crown Court next month. Christopher Gilbert, 34,...

Plans for a supermarket giant to move into the heart of Newport have been reinvigorated after posters were spotted in a shop window. Tesco could open its 6th store on the Island in Newport — moving into the former BrightHouse...

An extended concourse providing direct access to the new pedestrian walkway at Ryde Pier from the Esplanade Train Station will open to the public on Monday 19th February, it has been confirmed.  Almost 2 years into the controversial Ryde Interchange...

A Solent tunnel is not a new idea - a  resolution supporting a proposed tunnel was passed by Ventnor District Council at their meeting on 9th February 1914. Boring operations had recently taken place at Fort Victoria near Yarmouth to...