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There was a time when the high street felt like it had everything. Department stores stacked floor to ceiling, specialist shops tucked between chain restaurants, and the reassuring sense that if you could not find it locally, it probably did ...

Isle of Wight Freemasons have donated more than £70,000 to support local charities across the Island. 

HM Coastguard, the RNLI, Police and Paramedics were called to the scene.

Efforts are underway by East Wight MP, Joe Robertson, to secure future ‘place-based’ funding opportunities for Sandown following a visit by representatives from the Lloyds Bank Foundation.

This latest alert comes less than 24 hours after Islanders were warned from entering the beach at Ryde.

Ryde Town Council had hoped to repeat the achievements of St Thomas Church when they purchased the site.

'I don't know how the Government intends to plan for patient feedback once Healthwatch is removed'

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated Isle of Wight Council as ‘requires improvement’ in its delivery of adult social care services following a new-style assessment under the Care Act 2014.

Ian Zerafa is not the kind of person who usually stops at a press release, copies a couple of nice-sounding lines from it, and moves on. This Maltese journalist and analyst works as Content Manager at Casino.org, where he leads ...

Across the Isle of Wight and the UK’s coastal communities, financial planning has followed a predictable, conservative path. For many, wealth preservation meant a simple Friday walk down the local street to deposit cash into a trusted building society or ...