One school said to the new term dates, “The children and staff will be on their knees with a seven-and-a-half week half term and all the excitement and illness associated with the last few weeks of the autumn term"
Neighbourhood Policing Teams are continuing to engage with local knitting groups to gather more bears. Officers give them the knitting pattern and they send their finished bears in to their local station.
According to anti-single use plastic protesters, a truck load of plastic enters our oceans every single minute worldwide, killing wildlife and polluting our waters.
The Monday night events are not aimed at creating the next Lionel Messi, but instilling a love of the game and opening up the social benefits of sport.
If you're out and about on the roads this month you'll notice roadwork schemes have intensified as Island Roads aims to finish as many schemes as possible before the summer holidays.
A target to raise £2,000 for Isle of Wight Foodbank and Isle of Wight Red Box project led to several councillors flipping pancakes yesterday. More within.
Don't get too excited, but for a limited period, Isle of Wight council are offering to give you their Floating Bridge 'Oyster Card', so you can load credit up on the card, to gradually spend on floating bridge journeys. The upside? You'll pay less for the journeys.
Three Isle of Wight bands played tribute to The King Lud's rich musical heritage with an emotional farewell gig before its refurbishment and new life as a craft pub.
As well as the Bembridge and Cowes lifeboats, the marina line-up included craft from Hayling Island, Portsmouth, Calshot, Lymington, Gosport and Ryde and members of the Freshwater and Sandown stations arrived by road.
With the lack of Legal Aid on the Isle of Wight, the Law Centre is the only place that provides assistance to those facing eviction. They say that if the Isle of Wight Council is serious about homelessness prevention, it should be increasing their core funding, not terminating it.