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Now Christmas is upon us there is time for renewal and reflection. The burning question in the coming months for many will be what do we want and expect from our future MP? Peter Geach shares his concerns.
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This reader says Island teachers are being run into the ground and need more support and agrees with the view of Ofsted that leadership is still a big problem.
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David Moorse speaks from experience when he says it's not just horses who are having problems with slipping on Isle of Wight roads resurfaced by PFI contractor, Island Roads.
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When Mark Lansbury received a Black Friday offer through email, his wife was rather baffled, but Mark had experience of this marketing ploy and had seen the devastating results.
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Mark Lansbury says Isle of Wight Conservative MP, Andrew Turner, needs to make good on promises over the privatisation of the NHS, after it was announced arms firm Lockheed Martin could be awarded a £1bn contract for back office services.
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A champion of free movement in the EU, Catherine Bearder says the new ruling by the European Court of Justice this week needs to be to built on this and any outstanding issues ironed out.
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Residents in Brading say Island Roads have renewed the pavements and returned to redo them so many times, they're wondering if they'll ever be finished.
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The proposed new ferry service between Cowes and Portsmouth, which received a £50,000 grant from the Solent LEP, was last reported as launching near the end of August. With no sign of the new ferry service yet, Gregory asks whether it was just a 'nauti joke'.
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A Sunday morning walk for this reader from Newport resulted in the collection of 19 empty drinks cans, seven fast-food wrappings, two vodka bottles, a wine bottle, two dozen wads of ‘serviettes’ and two discarded and used dog-poo bags.
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An OnTheWight reader from Newchurch says ferry fares jumped by 40% in just two hours when he was planning his journey off the Island to take his son to University last weekend. He wants the Conservative Isle of Wight MP to do more to tackle the fares for Islanders
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The first round of petitions have been delivered to Downing Street and last night, The One Show highlighted the save the pensioners' bus pass campaign last night (available on iPlayer).
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IW Labour candidate Stewart Blackmore, is fearful that if the Island Independents don't stay together and the Conservatives come to control the IW council again, cuts to Island services "would be unimaginable and the Island would never recover."
