Well done to the townspeople of East Cowes, including the firefighters, who have been adorning the town in metres and metres of bunting head of the weekend's celebrations.
There's a huge amount planned for the bicentennial celebrations in East Cowes next weekend including, a grand procession, esplanade festival, town exhibition, new Victoria Town Trail among other things.
The work and commitment that has gone into creating the Royal Panel is an inspirational effort by the people of East Cowes, says their councillor, Karl Love.
The Isle of Wight councillor for East Cowes says the Solent LEP consultation for the floating bridge was a "shockingly poor example of community engagement".
The announcement was made following Saturday's AGM. Other events will take place throughout the year building towards a main Pride event in 2020. Cllr Love addresses the homophobic comments made on social media.
The recovery of the Stigwood art has been entirely funded from community crowdfunding and will be a great asset to East Cowes's community regeneration, but there is still more to do before the work is complete.
School children and workers are late to school and work this morning as the Cowes Floating Bridge "fails at the most important time of day", says Councillor Love.
Councillors debated and voted on next year's budget, which sees £5.5m of cuts/savings to public services including a 2.99 per cent increase to Council Tax, £1 overnight parking across the Island and 5% increase in crematorium and cemetery charges.
The new Town Trail highlights the famous Victorians who visited East Cowes during Queen Victoria’s reign. Each name is etched onto one of 22 stone markers set into the path though East Cowes to Osborne House.