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Police are encouraging people to dispose of their festive gift packaging sensibly by breaking down boxes to ensure that they fit inside the bin or to take them to local household waste recycling centres.
Don’t advertise your new expensive Christmas gifts to burglars this year by leaving the boxes outside your house next to the bin. (more…)
A ‘Ring of Steel’ initiative targeting drink and drugs driving on the Isle of Wight in the run-up to Christmas has been hailed a success.
The operation involved officers from the Dog Support Unit and Roads Policing Unit, as well as the Probationer Development Unit, Safer Neighbourhoods teams, PCSOs and Special Constables.
The Isle of Wight Council is responsible for the collection, recycling and disposal of household waste from residents of the Island. Through recycling, composting and the Resource Recovery Facility, approximately half of the Islands domestic waste is diverted from landfill.
Ms Helen Foster, of Yarmouth, who founded Saturday Club for Deaf Children three decades ago, along with Mrs Mary Jackson a Supply Teacher of Shanklin Church of England Primary School, Isle of Wight have been awarded MBE’s in the Queen’s New Year Honour’s List. (more…)
The Met Office is forecasting spells of very stormy weather across much of the country as we head into the New Year, with gusts of 80 mph expected in the worst-affected areas. (more…)