More women on the Isle of Wight are turning away from the pill and condoms in favour of longer-lasting contraception, figures show.

Whilst the number of recorded written complaints about GPs and dental practices rose by 4% across England, here on the Isle of Wight they have dropped 6%.

The Sport England survey asked a random sample of adults on the Isle of Wight how active they'd been in the past four weeks. The results will be surprising to some.

Although more Isle of Wight mothers are, on average, still exclusively breastfeeding their babies at six-to-eight weeks compared to the rest of the country, almost half stop breastfeeding after two months.

The figures for May show that patients at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust spent a total of 171 days waiting to be discharged or transferred to a different care facility - equivalent to over six months of waiting time.