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Readers may remember Retired Hack's article which revealed that the need for councillors to declare their membership of the Freemasons on the Members’ Register of Interests was removed during changes made by a delegated officer last summer.
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The controversial development of 96-beds - previously branded 'un-neighbourly' - in the Whippingham / East Cowes area received its Isle of Wight council decision last night.
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OnTheWight has invited members from each political group or party on the Isle of Wight council to share their impressions of how the first six months of an Independent-led Isle of Wight council is working.
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It was suggested the councillors missed the point of the motion, and some were accused of making personal attacks on Cllr Lilley. Comprehensive report within
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An amendment to the proposal that an Executive Committee system be acknowledged as the preferred option means members of the public will be asked to consider the merits of three options of council governance rather than one.
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Leaders of all the groups who worked on and submitted budgets have shared their full speeches with OnTheWight.
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With the Isle of Wight council elections less than a year away, OnTheWight asked leaders of all the political groups for their “view on how things have been since the last election and your hopes for the next 11 months”. Here’s what Liberal Democrat Reg Barry had to say.
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The Conservatives tried to get a Motion through Full Council - praising themselves for the whole Island’s handling of Covid-19. Unsurprisingly, there was a significant pushback. All the details are in this report, for those who really want to understand what happened
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This unique reminder of the Island's history - thought to have been used to boost the flagging voltage at the end of a long supply feed - has been lovingly restored by Island Roads.
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The need for Isle of Wight councillors to declare if they are Masons was explicitly written into the IW council’s constitution in 2001. OnTheWight can reveal this practice was undone last Summer under the last Conservative administration. Why was it undone and under whose authority?
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Island Independents, Labour and Liberal Democrat councillors have called for an Extraordinary meeting of the full council to be held to revisit last week's "bulldozed through" vote to not appoint a Chair of Scrutiny.
