Isle of Wight County, England News

RIVAL proposals to build a replacement asphalt plant at the Bardon Vectis site at Blackwater Quarry, St George's Down, have been given the green light by planning chiefs.

COWES Enterprise College will begin its long-delayed move into the new A 32m building in September, the Isle of Wight Council announced today .

AN INQUEST has been opened and adjourned into the death of a Newport man whose body was recovered from the bottom of cliffs at Alum Bay on Wednesday.

A DATE has been set for 15-year-old Isle of Wight sailor Natasha Lambert to be honoured for her fundraising.

Remains of the auxillary unit hide-out at Kemp Hill Farm on the outskirts of Ryde in 1989.

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WHILE Enter Shikari's recent tour took the band to more intimate venues, including the Forum in Hatfield, the St Albans quartet will still be hitting the UK festival circuit like a sledgehammer this summer.

She was walking a dog in Stockbridge Road, Sparsholt , near Winchester, at around 1pm when she was involved in a collision with a blue Vauxhall Corsa.

THE number of Jobseeker's Allowance claimants on the Isle of Wight fell for the third month in a row, but long-term unemployment has remained more than double the South East rate.

THE latest legal challenge to Wightlink's Lymington ferries has failed, but the company has been left counting the cost of a long legal battle.

He will play the Friday night of the festival, introducing ten fields and 20 stages filled with music, entertainment and sideshows.

An effort to secure funding to restore a building where key military equipment was made during World War II has failed.

Danny proves he has the voice with this emotional cover of Rihanna's Stay at the Radio 1 Live Lounge.

OFFERED the chance to spend a weekend being wined and dined in one of the UK's secret treasures, naturally I jumped at the chance.

ASSURANCES have been given over the redevelopment of Ventnor Winter Gardens after a deal between its owners and a top chef fell through.

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Police in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight are to co-ordinate a "long-term, preventative response" to unlicensed music events, or raves.

Lottie, 11, was enjoying a family holiday in the Lake District last spring when she was struck down with meningitis for the second time in her life.