Cllr Baker-Smith says a change in Leadership does not require a change in administration and that the Independent group are committed to leading through this term of Council and beyond 4th May into the next term.
Richard Jones has been sentenced to seven and a half years and will be a registered sex offender for life, having been convicted of nine sexual offences.
OnTheWight last year carried out an analyses of how new Funding Formulas would affect schools. The NUT have revealed, with new figures, that schools on the Island will be almost £5.5m worse off.
The leader of the Isle of Wight Conservative councillors, Dave Stewart, says that he's happy to do what was yesterday described by the outgoing leadership as 'the government's dirty work' by becoming a 'caretaker leader' following the resignations.
Hot on the heels of the resignations of the Leader and Deputy Leader of the Isle of Wight council and the Executive resignations of Cllrs Jordan and Stephens, another Independent councillor has stepped down from the Executive.
Search dogs on loan from Thames Valley Police have started a three day operation to search through undergrowth along the Luccombe coastal path. Assisted by Wight SAR and the Coastguard, the teams are searching what they consider to be the place 'most likely' that Robbie would have gone through.
Police will be carrying out a search of the coastal path in Luccombe this week for a man who went missing in June 2016. Police say they are searching six months later because the area was too overgrown during the summer months.