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John Howe's family invites the Isle of Wight community to his memorial service on 10th January
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Tributes for John Howe highlight his long-standing dedication to Totland and its residents
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Totland recreation ground to get new facilities, including cycle park and toilets
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Due to a lower number of candidates in 48 town, parish and community councils residents will only be voting for their Isle of Wight councillor
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Despite its unanimous decision, conditions were added to the planning approval for a new school building in West Wight last night
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Councillors across the chamber paid tribute to Lora Peacey-Wilcox who has finished her two year term as Chairman of the Isle of Wight council.
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Katie from East Cowes has to decide whether she feeds her child or pays to take him to school. 19 councillors chose to ignore this story and voted against calls for the Cabinet to reconsider their decision.
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The treatment of staff and pupils at Sandown Bay Academy by its sponsor, Academies Enterprise Trust, was described as appalling, atrocious and disappointing by councillors. They voted to have AET removed from all Island schools.
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Chaired by former executive member, Cllr Paul Fuller, and including the former Leader Cllr Bacon, the new Scrutiny Committee gathers tonight to scrutinise the proposed budget for 2017/18.
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Chairmen and chairwomen that is, all elected at the Annual Council meeting held on Wednesday night.
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As you might expect, nominations for chairs of the new Select Committee resulted in heated debate in the council chamber last night. Read on for the full report.
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Petitioners will have five minutes to make their case and a further 18 minutes of discussion and debate by councillors will take place to consider the Totland landslide.
