Nipper crab costume outside Brading Roman Villa

Isle of Wight Day: Be a Roman for a day

That is the brilliant invitation for families to enjoy a great fun day out as part of Isle of Wight Day on Saturday 17th September at Brading Roman Villa, getting immersed in everything Roman.

Even more amazing – it’s just £1 entry for Island residents.

Fun-packed day
The day will be packed with a range of fun family activities including Roman soldier school, Roman sword and shield making, Roman mosaic making, entertainment, bouncy castles and a chance to meet Isle of Wight Day mascot, Nipper The Crab, in his full Roman armoury.

There will be over 40 volunteer organisations from across the Island, organised by Community Action Isle of Wight, who will have demonstrations and fun activities for all to join in.

Daley: There’ll be so many things for everyone to see and do
Isle of Wight Day CEO, Becky Daley, explains the amazing things that are in store at this event,

“We have worked closely with Brading Roman Villa to create the most fantastic fun experience for all the family, bringing our Island history to life on this special day.

“There will be so many things for everyone to see and do on the day. The gates will open at 10am.”

For full event details visit the official Isle of Wight Day Website.

News shared by David on behalf of Isle of Wight Day. Ed

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Cynic
30, January 2015 2:44 pm

But does not protect vulnerable areas outside designated Island AONBs, such as Bonchurch, the Landslip area, Undercliffe and the whole Back of Wight

RJC
30, January 2015 3:00 pm

Ha ha. Very funny, those areas protect themselves, just as it does when anybody tries to live there. A good downpour and you are homeless.

Cynic
Reply to  RJC
30, January 2015 3:03 pm

Fracking can make that happen without rain. by providing the sub-surface water as part of its drilling operation.

milly
Reply to  RJC
30, January 2015 3:05 pm

Cicero makes a cogent point and RJC dismisses it by sleight of hand – brilliant.

Cynic
Reply to  milly
31, January 2015 6:14 pm

We nearly bought a house up the hill in Luccombe but wisely viewed it in the rain, decided that it would soon slide down and become a beach house! So we didn’t buy it! :-))

mat
30, January 2015 3:02 pm

The Isle of Wight will be Fracked. If they can get the principle established elsewhere in the UK and particularly in the South the thin end of the wedge will be driven in.Then they will do it later. They know exactly where it is for later on. Fracking politically is driven by; 1.Contradictions with Russia, shifting strategic influence from Europe and in particular Germany and mainly supplying… Read more »

decadentd
Reply to  mat
30, January 2015 3:36 pm

About the only comments in Cicero’s piece that are indisputable are the bit about China and the penultimate section, saying
New skills and Health and safety precautions are required to be put in place.
The rest is conjecture and hyperbole. It’s still to early to be so specific. Just saying,,,,,,

Cynic
Reply to  decadentd
31, January 2015 9:03 am

@decadentd Ahem! I think you meant @mat as I have never commented about China in this thread.

BTW you are also wrong about “conjecture and hyperbole”. There are lots of independent academic reports about the deleterious effects of fracking in various parts of the US and recent experience in the UK.

Why not do a bit of research before commenting- just saying! :-))

Steve Goodman
Reply to  mat
1, February 2015 8:29 pm

‘Fracking politically is (no doubt also) driven by’ –
4. Placing Lord Browne at the heart of government.

That’s former BP oil exec., Goldman Sachs exec., Cuadrilla fracking exec., and perjurer Lord Browne.

Might help explain the recently leaked letter from George Osborne urging ministers to fast-track fracking measures.

Cynic
Reply to  Steve Goodman
2, February 2015 9:58 am

Georgy-Porgy is looking for big bucks (and I mean BIG “Bucks” from Big Oil) for the Tory election warchest. At least Thatcher sold the family silver that the UK already owned. Osborne is selling the future environmental health of our children and grandchildren. Some might say it is also a marketing exercise to provide future customers for a fully-privatised health service. If you want that, Osborne, please… Read more »

Mike Vallender
30, January 2015 3:03 pm

It is good to receive reassurance with regard to this issue and to read points of clarification that the IWCC considers our areas of SSSI and AONB need protection with regard to these areas, but it is disheartening to to still have issues regarding the land management, parks etc, coastal erosion that it is unable to deal with for whatever reason.

Mike Vallender
30, January 2015 3:48 pm

While this subject is open to both discussion and error regarding the benefits and drawbacks with regard to fracking please also consider the devastation that occurred in earlier times on the island to a certain degree. A lot of early Victorian work took place for the removal of Alum (aluminium) at Alum Bay. A lot of island stone was quarried and transported and move to the mainland… Read more »

Rowan
31, January 2015 5:56 pm

Good news as far as it goes. But we should all have the right to say no. And we need to start leaving fossil fuel in the ground to stop climate change.

retired Hack
31, January 2015 6:25 pm

The government guidance still includes weasel words about “the public interest”. A planning inspector is just as capable of overturning the IWC’s definition of “the public interest” as he/she is of taking the opposite view about what “exceptional circumstances” are. The present IWC administration, by using the words “outright ban” in this Press release, has clearly taken a view that it will always be in the public… Read more »

Steve Goodman
1, February 2015 8:32 pm

We don’t need to waste time & money on dirty & dangerous fracking (which of course is also contrary to our stated obligation to stop using fossil fuels), when we should be building properly, for example. I know somebody who built his own house in Berkshire in 2009; you can see online (just look for tonys house) that in May 2012 he reported that his energy cost… Read more »

watchdog
Reply to  Steve Goodman
2, February 2015 11:02 am

Steve: I agree with much of what you say, but it does sound as though you are in favour of Feed In Tariffs. As you know, these do not come from govt. beneficence (via the taxpayer), but are mandated by the govt. to be paid by the energy companies, who then collect them from us consumers in the shape of higher tariffs. I am all in favour… Read more »

Steve Goodman
Reply to  watchdog
2, February 2015 11:44 am

I didn’t say I was in favour of FITs (although I have benefited from them); the past, present, & proposed economics of energy supply & consumption are more complicated than is sensible, with an assortment of government incentives, subsidies, tax breaks, producer’s price guarantees, & so on. What I do favour is a political will to save money & effort by taking the long view, & using… Read more »

Tanja Rebel
1, February 2015 10:49 pm

The Isle of Wight Council could have declared the Island a frack-free zone long ago – and still can. Such a declaration might not have legal clout, but it would have strong symbolic value. Various other counties have done it and in America New York State has recently declared itself frack-free. Come on, Isle of Wight Council, be bold!

Cynic
Reply to  Tanja Rebel
2, February 2015 11:14 am

Careful Tanja- it now appears that New York State apparatchiks delayed the report the State commissioned from the US Geological Service until after the mayoral election (shades of the UK’s Chilton Report?) and also edited that scientific report to achieve political ends.

I am anti-fracking but also anti-political or commercial manipulation of science.

Steve Goodman
3, February 2015 9:59 am

There are other options; in 7 days one of these primary schools will win free solar panels, thanks to a Friends of the Earth campaign. •Dulwich Wood Primary, Southwark, London •Forge Integrated Primary School, Belfast, Northern Ireland •Four Dwellings Primary Academy, Birmingham •St. Francis Catholic Primary, Bedworth, Warwickshire •Stoneydown Park Primary School, Walthamstow, London •Stutton Primary School, Ipswich, Suffolk And you can help make it happen. https://www.foe.co.uk/page/run-sun-competition-gallery… Read more »