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WightFibre has announced that 57,000 premises on the Isle of Wight can now receive its full-fibre broadband service. Cables have already been laid to a further 10,000 homes with service to those homes scheduled to become available in the next...

UKSA has released its annual Impact Report which reveals record figures for the charity for its 2022-23 year. The world’s largest RYA centre and UK youth maritime charity announced 10,590 beneficiaries during 2022 with 33% of those funded by UKSA...

Residents and visitors are being urged to have their say and help shape new plans to improve the quality of walking and cycling infrastructure in the Sandown, Shanklin and Lake area. Using funds awarded by Active Travel England, the Isle...

New state-of-the-art laboratories could be coming to the CECAMM educational facility in Whippingham as part of a multi-million-pound government scheme. Through the South Coast Institute of Technology (IoT), the Isle of Wight College’s Centre of Excellence for Composites, Advances Manufacturing And...

A controversial development planned for the edge of an Isle of Wight village is back on the cards and it could be even bigger than was originally planned. New developers have taken control of a currently empty greenfield site on Newport...

Local businesses and residents in Ventnor are facing significant disruption after Island Roads issued notice for more than 6 months of works to resurface the footway and replace the safety railings on Rene Howe Walk. According to a letter sent...

The Isle of Wight will not play host to the prestigious cycling event, the Tour of Britain in 2024. It comes nearly a year after the Island was supposed to hold the final stage of the 2022 event — with...

Sir Richard Worsley - husband of the scandalous Lady Worsley - died at Appuldurcombe House on 8th August 1805. The baronet was a significant figure in Isle of Wight history. He was elected MP for Newport in 1774, then MP...

Plans have been submitted yet again to build 5 townhouses on the site of the former Zanies nightclub in Sandown, more than 20 years after plans to build housing on the site were first approved. Applicants John Moorman and Paul...

Popular writer Hunter Davies was among supporters who breathed a sigh of relief this week at the news that the Museum of Ryde  – on the verge of closure – has been reprieved. The museum has been saved, at least...