The new Centre for Excellence for Composites, Advanced Manufacturing and Marine Technology being created in East Cowes should provide 550 young people with workshop and learning facilities and provide 250 apprenticeships.
Last October Wightlink urged Andrew Turner to highlight the dangers of including ferry ports in the proposed Marine Conservation Zone in the Solent. Three of the six Hampshire and the Isle of Wight sites have now been dropped from the consultation.
The Conservative Isle of Wight MP says "Englishmen – and English ladies – have waited and waited and waited. There comes a point where they are prepared to wait no more!"
Having been contacted by a number of constituents complaining about the poor Vodafone service on the Island, the Island’s MP, Andrew Turner, invited representatives from Vodafone to come to the Island to talk to a number of concerned Islanders who had contacted him about the issue.