Isle of Wight business – It’s not just tourism

MHI Vestas and GKN Aerospace are both involved in donating or making items to help in the fight against Coronavirus

Labour's Richard Quigley says that rather than demonise firms such as GKN, Vestas and Vikoma for keeping their staff working, we should add the brave men and women going into work to the list of heroes and do everything we can to keep them safe

The Solent LEP say the Task Force has been set up to share best practice and intelligence, particularly related to business rates relief and administering the small grants programme

Vix Lowthion says it's unreasonable for employees to choose between a job or the health of their family

This just-launched Website, created by Islanders for Islanders, will help those living on the Isle of Wight find which business will deliver to their homes - Goods of all sorts and is free to use

The Business Secretary is to waive competition law to allow Isle of Wight ferry operators to coordinate to keep routes open and essential goods flowing

Islanders are being asked to support the campaign - Don't Cancel ... Postpone - by downloading the image to show support for the tourism industry

The Island-based company owners say they have made the decision for all build activity to be safely paused across their West Acre Park site

Here are the responses GKN and MHI Vestas gave to News OnTheWight after Islanders got in contact with us about their concerns that people were still working on site

After rumours had spread that Liz Earle still had a lot of people working on site, OnTheWight contacted them to find out how things stood

How’s that for giving to the community? Isle of Wight Distillery is producing not-for-profit hand sanitiser for key workers and organisations experiencing shortages. Detail inside