Cabinet member, Julie Jones-Evans, believes that regeneration is needed more than ever, as she shares a round-up of the year and her hopes for the future
After agreeing to take over the public toilets from IWC, the parish council is also doing a lot of maintenance work to them to bring them up to the standard they expect.
OnTheWight has a set of photos at HD resolution inside the 19th Century Palmeston fort that was the home of The Sea Devils in the 1972 Doctor Who series.
There was good news and bad as the Island saw the highest every number of first timers over the summer, but the overall; number of visitors dropped due to Bestival leaving the Island and that awful wet weather.
Tourism on the Isle of Wight is expected to recover in 2023, with an increase in overnight visits from domestic tourists and a successful ad campaign generating 68.5 million views and 84,635 website clicks
IWC says they can't afford to run them. We've dug into how much the council is paying out in invoices for the pools. It seem to be only a few thousand a year.