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The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has touched down in Upper Ventnor this afternoon (Sunday) amid an ongoing medical emergency at a residential address. Emergency service personnel were first called to the scene on Newport Road at around ...

Scientific research by University of Portsmouth postgraduates suggests that the quality of seawater at Ryde is good enough for seahorses and cuttlefish to thrive and reproduce. Artificial habitats for cuttlefish and seahorses installed underwater by the students at Wightlink’s ports ...

Girlguiding IW has been selected by Isle of Wight Festival organisers to receive a pair of weekend festival tickets, which are now up for grabs in a silent auction. Payment offered will raise much-needed funds for this local charity which ...

An Isle of Wight parish council has launched a renewed attack on a proposed name change to Wootton's The Sloop Inn. Wootton Bridge Parish Council (WBPC) said renaming The Sloop Inn, a Grade II-listed pub dating from the 18th century, as ...

A large industrial building will be built at a well-established Isle of Wight service station to house 3 of its most valuable ‘heavy duty’ vehicles. County Hall has granted planning permission to Bartletts Service Station to construct a steel framed ...

An Isle of Wight couple have completed a 125-mile charity walk in aid of local disability charity John's Club.  43-year-old Jo Plater and her 42-year-old husband Steve, completed the gruelling 125-mile trek having set off from the John's Club base ...

19th century philosopher Karl Marx - the 'greatest' theorist of the Communist movement - made 3 visits to the Isle of Wight. Marx's works - in particular The Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital - were the main inspiration behind 20th ...

Search engines are now much smarter than before. It is almost impossible to achieve successful results using only keywords: new strategies need to be developed for both SEO (search engine optimization) and SMM (social media marketing). This is because Google ...

A Peugeot driver, who failed to stop for Police, was chased through a Shanklin pub before being arrested earlier this evening (Saturday). It was earlier this evening that a blue Peugeot 208 caught the attention of the Roads Policing Unit ...

Shanklin man Alex Cooper - who admitted yet another shoplifting offence when he appeared in court earlier this week - has been given 3 months to stay out of trouble and cooperate with probation. Cooper, 26 of Oaklyn Gardens in ...