The new Chief Executive of the Isle of Wight council will be on a salary of £138,038 a year — a pay rise of more than £2,000 compared to the previous CEO who resigned earlier this year to take on a role in Cumbria
Conservative councillors will be making their way home from the Party Conference (during a rail strike) and other councillors have said they can't attend either, but the Chairman says there are no other suitable dates in October
Some councillors said they thought the motion was like a NIMBY Charter but it was voted through and so the Leader will write to the Government asking for the 'tilted balance' to be suspended
Limited numbers of the public can attend tonight's first meeting of the new council, and although not mandatory, IWC ask you to take a lateral flow test
Find out what your councillor has to say about the issues being debated at the July Isle of Wight full council meeting. We report live from the chamber so you don't have to make the journey to Newport.