Police are appealing for information about the alleged theft of a box containing charity donations on the Isle of Wight. Sometime between 7.30pm on Saturday, December 6th, and 1.00am on Sunday, December 7th, the red coloured box disappeared from outside an address in Coronation Gardens in Shanklin where Christmas lights are on display…
Following the publication of the government’s Children and Young People Bill 2008, the Isle of Wight Council is to host a seminar, jointly presented by young people, which will detail the latest government plans aimed at improving services for looked after children and young people…
Health campaigners on the Isle of Wight have welcomed the announcement of new plans to stop the promotion of smoking to young people. This will mean removing cigarette displays in shops and preventing underage access to vending machines…
Thanks to the joys of online participation and social network sites such as Flickr, I discovered a new community venture being planned on the Isle of Wight for 2009. There seems to have already been a public meeting about the Isle of Wight Community Renaissance Festival of which was held to see if there was interest from the community at large…
Late yesterday, the Coastguard Helicopter winched a 29 year old man from the Isle of Wight to safety just before the fishing vessel he was on sank. Cowes RNLI lifeboat and Gosport and Fareham SSRO lifeboat were also launched…
A survey of 1,241 Islanders in June and August 2008 has found that 63 per cent of Islanders would speak highly of their local NHS. This is 22 points up on the same survey conducted between January and March 2008 and well ahead of other areas in the south…
Following a burglary in Sandown, Police on the Isle of Wight are warning Christmas bargain hunters to beware of stolen second hand goods for sale. Detectives are making an appeal after computer games, jewellery, a portable music player, and hairdressing equipment were stolen during an alleged burglary…
A pupil of Hunnyhill Primary School, Pipi-Lotta Kulla, aged eight, has won this year’s competition to create a Christmas card for Isle of Wight MP Andrew Turner. Pipi-Lottas’ winning design illustrating the verses of the Twelve Days of Christmas poem, follows in the footsteps of last year’s winner from the same school…
