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All change for the website of the Friends of the Ventnor Botanic Garden. New features and member benefits.
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Students from Medina, Cowes and Carisbrooke colleges, and also from Ryde and Sandown Bay academies are becoming the first teenagers on the Isle of Wight to receive training to help young people beat bullying as a part of an anti-bullying initiative called CyberMentors.
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BBC2 disappeared from analogue overnight on the Island. How are you getting on with re-tuning, etc?
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The Ventnor Coastguard team have a new website with loads of interesting information on it. Why not check it out.
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Diagnosis of prisoners medical problems over a video link should lead to less needing to go to St Mary's A&E
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The 25 hour outage of broadband was down to a fault in an underground fibre cable about 20kms from Southampton, say BT
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Council appeal for residents and businesses to take a moment to register their support for the scheme to bring super-fast broadband to rural areas of the Island. Only if they can show interest will the Government match fund the investment.
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Residents are urged to register their interest in superfast broadband, it's needed in order for the match funding to be forthcoming.
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A new £14.8m aero engine pre-production plant in Cowes is to be officially opened by Mark Prisk MP tomorrow. It's a joint venture between GKN Aerospace and Rolls-Royce
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Ventnor is added to the roll-out programme for 20Mb broadband by BT.
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If you've got an old spare computer to donate to Vectis 4x4 Response they'd be most grateful. They need something along the lines of 486 DX 25, 8MB, running Windows 95.
