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Michael Portillo visits the Isle of Wight and travels on Island Line trains as well as the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, before heading to Osborne House. Tune in on Thursday.
Media
The Isle of Wight media scene is very vibrant, which may be a surprise for many.
Here’s where you will find all of the articles that News OnTheWight has published about the various strands of the Island media, or where the Isle of Wight has featured in TV or films.
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The Isle of Wight looks absolutely gorgeous on Penelope Keith's new series on Channel4 featuring coastal villages around the UK. You can watch again if you missed it earlier this week.
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After pioneering automated article creation with Tony Hirst 2+ years ago, OnTheWight is now working with Press Association (PA)/Urbs.
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The Editor of the County Press told OnTheWight he has 'no comment to make' when we approached him about word of staff redundancies, four months after the family-owned business was bought by media group, Newsquest.
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Vectis Community radio is now broadcasting on 104.6fm and can be picked up from most parts of the Island, as well as in Southampton and the New Forest area.
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The leader of the Isle of Wight council this afternoon suggested that skilled workers who are set to lose their jobs at BAE Systems and Gurit should apply for jobs at the new call centre.
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The next episode in the second series of BBC2’s documentary on the RNLI, which airs at 8pm on Tuesday 26th September, will include footage of the Yarmouth lifeboat in action and interviews with the Coxswain and members of the volunteer crew.
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The last meeting of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) on the Isle of Wight was way back in the '90s, so it's quite a thing for them to return.
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Red Funnel have put together a fun video showing how Queen Victoria might travel to the Isle of Wight if she were alive today. Complete with Beats headphones, Tinder and SnapChat, watch the video to see how she does it.
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Launched in 2010 and based at the Riverside Centre in Newport, Vectis Radio have today announced the start date for their new FM service.
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Claims that a pro-Brexit Twitter user from 'Southampton/Isle of Wight' is in fact a staff member of the Kremlin made front page news at The Times today. However, the report has since been questioned by others, who claim the allegations are 'fatally flawed'.
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For six weeks a class at an Isle of Wight primary school were treated in a 'gender neutral' way. Surveying them before and after to witness the change in their attitudes. The first episode is on BBC tonight.
