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.
An artwork commissioned for the Isle of Wight Hidden Heroes exhibition has now been installed at IBM's headquarters on London's Southbank. They too, can watch the IW ferries crossing the Solent.
The rerouting of the A3 through Portsmouth (to ferry) is at an advanced stage. If passed, extensive roadworks would follow. Once completed getting to the Wightlink ferry should be much smoother.
If you've tried to get your business ready for GDPR, you'll probably be desperate for clear guidance on how to get it working well. Alistair Dickinson of Isle of Wight-based MyCRM has just the thing.
One of the newly-elected Isle of Wight Conservative Association's Deputy Chairmen has already resigned - one week in. Wendy Murwill didn't even make it as far as the first Officers' meeting.
Having pioneered Readers' comments on Isle of Wight news stories 10+ years ago, OnTheWight now launches a new feature so you can find which articles are attracting the most comments and which comments are getting the greatest reaction.
OnTheWight has discovered the council's Gender Pay Gap Report. There are significantly more women working for the council than men and women's hourly rates are lower. The council claim it's not down to them paying differently for the same or equivalent work.