MP visits Weston Community School which after threat of closure by the council, will next year become one of the first primary academy schools in the country.
Another newly-formed Isle of Wight political party, the Vectis Party, says it will stand candidates in all council election wards, after they detected an “appetite for something different in politics on the Island”
From outside St Mary's Hospital in Newport this morning, Green Party co-leader, Caroline Lucas, will be launching her party's pledge to protect the NHS from privatisation.
Isle of Wight residents queued up on Saturday to sign the Labour Party petition against underfunding and understaffing of the NHS by the Conservative Government.