After cross-training as a journalist 10+ years ago, Simon has been living and breathing news ever since. He would love to see more of the beautiful Island he lives on, but spends far too much time relaying the news of the Isle of Wight to the Islanders.
Covid-19 has taken away the business of IOW Tours, the award-winning Isle of Wight holiday company. As the sad news hits, News OnTheWight spoke to the woman who led the much-loved company for over 30 years.
News OnTheWight has been seeking from Government the number of Mainlanders who have self-diagnosed with Covid-19 that are travelling on ferries to the Isle of Wight for testing. They won’t say. Red Funnel were more forthcoming
Twenty new Isle of Wight venues added and four drop out in our latest Eat Out to Help Out info – News OnTheWight’s popular, single, sort-able list. The simple way to find where to get your 50% meal discount
Here are all 200+ Isle of Wight ‘Eat out to help out’ businesses, in a single, sort-able list - brought together by News OnTheWight to make it simple to find where you can get your 50% discount
It appears that it’s not just news publications that are being kept away from answers to what seem like simple questions about the Isle of Wight Contact Tracing App trial. Here’s an exchange from Parliament yesterday
If you were running the IW Covid-19 App on an iPhone, your handset had very little chance of being detected, it's now been revealed. Details of how and why are within. If that was you - What’s your reaction?
The Government has just announced the amount of money they will be giving to the Isle of Wight council for them to support care homes following Friday’s announcement
There’s some great things happening at the West Wight Hub. News OnTheWight chats to Clare Griffin to find out more - “We’re going to come out of this even stronger,” she told us