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Head of the Isle of Wight Youth Trust says many young people feel like they don’t belong, that the community doesn’t think much of them.
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The Isle of Wight is on course to lose its County status with more public services delivered by private companies or run by a mainland council, Labour prospective parliamentary candidate Stewart Blackmore has warned.
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The future looks very bleak in local government over the coming years as funding to the council for core services is reduced by up to a whopping £16m over two years.
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Members voted 22-13 last night to approve the Conservative administration's budget for 2018/19 which sees a council tax rise of 5.99% and £7.5m of cuts to services.
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Surrey County Council announced yesterday they had formally reached an agreement for Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service to use their control centre from March
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The man who used to pull in £180+k/year while he was setting up the Isle of Wight roads PFI is back being paid by IWC and as well as being paid £95,000 for six months' work to fix the contract, his £750 per month rent is covered by IWC.
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Who will be picking up the bill for the public toilet cleaning contracts which have unexpectedly increased, in some cases, by 50%?
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Show of hands in favour of precept rise, but 100 out of 30,000 not representative
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Congratulations to the local residents who have worked for a year to ensure that they can continue to use their local pool
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Island MP agrees with Culture Minister that volunteers should not replace librarians, but supplement them
