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The Ocean Deck Bar & Restaurant on Sandown's Esplanade is to close later this month after the current tenant's 10 years at the helm. Announcing the news on social media, the popular eatery has advised customers wanting to pay them...

Significant disruptions to NHS services in the South East are expected this week as consultants and junior doctors will jointly stage industrial action for a period of 72 hours. The British Medical Association and Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association have...

A retired doctor from Havenstreet has been banned from the roads for 12 months after she admitted to those on a petrol forecourt that she had been drink driving. Ide McCarthy, 63, 0f St Peters Court in Havenstreet, pleaded guilty...

Bowel Cancer UK have announced that Jennifer Rayner, the Colorectal Clinical Nurse Specialist at St Mary’s Hospital, is the winner of the prestigious Gary Logue Colorectal Nurse Cancer Awards. Jennifer is the recipient of the award for a nurse nominated...

Exciting plans for a new state-of-the-art skatepark in Freshwater — which could be the first of its kind on the Island — have been submitted to the Isle of Wight Council. Freshwater Parish Council is behind plans for a new skatepark...

A 23-year-old man who admitted that he wouldn't have set fire to some bins in Newport if he had known CCTV cameras were watching him has been handed an 18-month community order. Josef Wilkins, 23, of Trafalgar Road in Newport...

Enforcement action is being taken against the owners of a former doctors’ surgery in East Cowes after the building was left abandoned and overgrown for years. The former East Cowes Health Centre, on York Avenue, has been closed for over...

A mystery fire destroyed a wing of the unoccupied 20-room mansion Upton House on 3rd October 1953. The rambling house - surrounded by dense undergrowth - was formerly the home of Edward Carter, High Sheriff of Hampshire. 3 of Edward...

More than £500,000 of vital funding has been secured to drive through improvements to bus services across the Island. The Bus Service Improvement Plan Plus (BSIP+) funding will aim to improve bus services and increase passenger numbers, which in turn...

Hillside in Ventnor is to cease trading and, with the new owner not taking on the business, the boutique accommodation will sell a vast inventory of furniture, sculptures and art. Gert Bach, who has been running Hillside for in excess of...