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Police are investigating after a 28-year-old was found with a fractured skull at an address in Ventnor this morning (Wednesday) At 00:49, Police were called to reports of a disturbance at a block of flats on Albert Street. Upon arrival ...

Audiences of GASP's forthcoming production of G&S' The Sorcerer have an extra treat in store. An aria, cut before the show's London premiere in 1877 and subsequently lost, has been forensically reconstructed from an incomplete set of orchestral parts by ...

Ryde, Newport and Shanklin Sandown clubs brought home titles, medals and strong performances from this year’s South Coast Rowing Championships in Plymouth. HISTORIC CHAMPIONSHIP WIN FOR NEWPORT ROWING CLUB Newport Rowing Club made history on Saturday as their Junior Men’s ...

Newport IW Football Club will remain ground-sharing at Cowes Sports’ Zilch Waste Stadium (Westwood Park) for the entirety of the 2025/26 season. The arrangement was initially intended to cover only the opening fixtures of the campaign, but delays in completing ...

Plans to give an Isle of Wight restaurant an outside seating area would be ‘selfish’ and cause a ‘massive disservice’ to other local businesses, a neighbouring pharmacy has said. Russell Canterbury, representing Ryde’s Gibbs and Gurnell pharmacy, joined two other ...

Proposed funding cuts to the Mountbatten hospice with “devastating consequences” provoked a “strong and emotional” response from the Isle of Wight community, a new report shows. Healthwatch Isle of Wight’s End of Life Care Report, compiled after the watchdog started ...

Cowes Sports reached the 3rd round of the Velocity Wessex League Cup by beating Blackfield & Langley by the best of 5 goals at Gang Warily this evening thanks to a brace from young winger Jared Tout Walters. The Yachtsmen ...

A teenage shoplifter who left Tesco Express with 3 sirloin steaks hidden under his top has been fined £40. Cameron Russell, 19, of Culver Parade in Sandown, admitted 2x theft from a shop when he appeared at the Isle of ...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has been ranked 73rd in newly published NHS tables that assess performance and finances across England’s acute hospital trusts. The dataset was published this morning (Tuesday) as part of Health Secretary Wes Streeting's NHS ...

Concerns over a “negative environment” at Cowes Enterprise College have prompted the launching of a petition calling for immediate changes to strict new rules. The online petition, which appeared on Change.org this week, calls for a "compassionate and inclusive review" ...