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LEP Chair says he will be ensuring that the Solent is at the forefront of this process to maximise investment for the sub-region and drive growth in our economy.
Business
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As well as farming and agriculture, tourism and manufacturing, the Isle of Wight is fast becoming home to new technologies and online businesses.
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Shop owners have also accused the Isle of Wight Council of failing to support independent shops, or having a consistent parking strategy and have vowed the ‘fight is on’.
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An article about Brexit and the UK in top German paper today features the Isle of Wight quite prominently today. Another win for Isle of Wight tourism.
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The Trades Union Council are seeking to secure meetings with Government ministers over the ferry issues.
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Dance club to get £300 from Cowes Rotary to enable them take part in the West of England Freestyle Dance Championships.
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The new(ish) owner of The George in Yarmouth has gained an even higher honour in the New Year Honours list than the CBE she had previously.
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News that site given go ahead by engineers to build on comes the day before a public meeting
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The popular greengrocer has announced the news today that they will be closing
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The team at South Boats in Cowes have been working on a refit of Yarmouth RNLI's Severn Class Lifeboat, the ‘Eric & Susan Hiscock'.
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Telegraph journo loves the Island.
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Southern Co-op colleagues raised more than £3,300 for their local charity partners and the figure was then bumped up by another £10,000 by Southern Co-op.
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A licence for oil exploration in a 200 sq km area on the Isle of Wight was approved in the same week Parliament approved changes allowing fracking in National Parks, AONBs and SSSIs.
