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Saturday's demo for health, homes, jobs and education saw around 150,000 people from around the country gather in London - this included Islanders who travelled up by coach with others from Portsmouth.
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The Isle of Wight Liberal Democrat INTogether campaign is calling on Island businesses to follow Siemen's lead and show their support for staying in the EU ahead of the referendum in June.
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The Isle of Wight MP says the editors of the BBC have cumulatively created unintentional bias and says that impartiality needs to be at the core of the BBC’s output.
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Following Saturday's anti-austerity march in London, eleven Isle of Wight councillors have signed up to the national ‘Councillors Against Austerity’ founding statement and ask the Government to reverse cuts to council funding
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The recommendations from the Garnet Report were rejected by Isle of Wight councillors in March so members of KILF are calling on the DfT will disregard Christopher Garnett's recommendation that Island Line is excluded from the wider rail franchise.
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When Greg Clark made a commitment to visit leaders on the Isle of Wight to help find ways for the Council to stay afloat, it was thought a meeting would have been set up by now.
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Proposals to avoid the industrial action have been rejected by Jeremy Hunt, so the planned two day strike will go ahead tomorrow (Tuesday). Isle of Wight NHS say they have well-prepared contingency plans in place "to ensure minimum disruption".
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Vix Lowthion, the leader of the Isle of Wight Green Party expresses her disgust after 294 MPs, including Isle of Wight MP Andrew Turner, voted to turn away 3,000 vulnerable refugee children who have travelled to Europe.
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The plight of 3k vulnerable children displaced by the civil war in Syria is stirring strong emotions on both sides. Here's Andrew Turner's view.
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PCC elections are next week. Want to know when elections are coming up in your area and who will be standing? This great new Website by The Democracy Club makes it all very easy for you.
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CLA South East says new fixed penalty notices for fly tipping which come into force on 9 May are welcome, but fears they may not be enough to stem the rising tide of refuse dumped in rural areas.
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Cllr Geoff Lumley (who co-organised the launch of the campaign on the Island) is unhappy that 22 Isle of Wight Councillors have not responded to or have declined his call to support the 'Councillors Against Austerity' campaign.
