Two years after a payment of over half a million pounds was paid by a council employee to Pihl, a bankrupt company, the court has made their final ruling on what happens to the money.
Over 1,000 students and staff joined together in an act of remembrance on the morning of 11th November 2015 at Cowes Enterprise College, using the full potential of the new building.
The council say they're pursuing the £500,000+ that was 'paid in error', but fail to mention that a court ruled in April that at least £152,000 had been swallowed up and would not be recovered. Why?
It's not the entire £14.9m that was suggested in council papers last year, but several million pounds has been agreed and will allow high priority work to be completed.
Concerned to read that it might be two years before an Ofsted inspection takes place at Cowes Enterprise College, the IW Member of Youth Parliament, Will Matthews, got in touch with Ofsted to raise his concerns.
Since being taken over by Ormiston Academies Trust, Cowes Enterprise is now considered a new school by Ofsted, giving them a chance of starting again, so exiting Special Measures.
A council officer was tasked with making sure public money didn't go a company that went bankrupt over a year ago. Instead they paid them over half a million pounds.
The site has been occupied since September 2011, so you'd imagine that a lease between the council and the Trust would have been signed by now. OnTheWight investigates.