Isle of Wight County, England News Archives

The Strokes and Jay-Z will headline the 2010 Isle of Wight festival in the U.K., marking the New York rock band's first confirmed live gig since October 2006.

A YACHT carrying nine people was left drifting in The Solent after losing its mast in heavy weather.

INTERNATIONAL music superstar Jay-Z, feisty rocker Pink and rock and roll icons Blondie have become the first acts to be confirmed for next summer's Isle of Wight Festival .

National Rape Awareness Week coincides with the start of the Christmas party season, which brings with it the potential for incidents of rape and sexual assault to increase with more people out drinking large amounts of alcohol.

COMBATING anti-social behaviour on the Island remains a top priority, according to Isle of Wight Council officials.

Bembridge Offshore Lifeboat coxswain Steve Simmonds, left, receives the A 3,000 cheque from Wight Spirit skipper and co-owner Stefan Mieczkowski.

THE Isle of Wight Council has been named and shamed for not having a policy of buying UK produce.

A violent robber is due to appear at the Court of Appeal after prosecutors applied for his sentence to be increased.

Superintendent Michael W. McPherson, who has come under fire for waiting until 7:15 a.m. Nov.

Defence giant BAE Systems is planning to axe up to 640 jobs following a review of its workload.

BBC radio presenter sparks complaints by playing When Harry Met Sally 'orgasm' clip on school-run show By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 12:54 PM on 19th November 2009 Angry parents have heavily criticised the BBC today after a radio presenter played a clip of a woman in the throes of an orgasm during the school run.

Ascension : Met Office Ascension Island Base Submitted by The Islander 19.11.2009 Statistics for the week ending Monday 22-Nov-09 Autumn storms batter Southern Britain Last week saw a very unsettled spell of weather develop across the UK , as Atlantic lows ran up from the Southwest to bring spells of heavy rain and strong winds.

VOTING to choose the members of the Isle of Wight Youth Council for 2010 gets underway on Monday, November 30.

MORE cars have been targetted by vandals after six windscreens were broken in Carisbrooke Park in the early hours of Sunday.

Police have renewed an appeal for information about a road crash involving a 12-year-girl in Newport.

EIGHT tankers anchored off the Isle of Wight coastline are due to dock at a Hampshire oil refinery this weekend.

TWO microlights found themselves in the flight-path of 26 military planes en route to the Queen's birthday celebrations, a report has revealed.

A white wooden cross stands guard over the stretch of U.S. 258 where Amy Pippin died when her car crashed into an oncoming tractor-trailer during the Nov.

AN ELECTRICAL fault caused a fire at a property in East Cowes yesterday . Firefighters from East Cowes and Newport were called to a house in Yarborough Road, at around noon, when one person had to be evacuated.

A 12-YEAR-OLD Newport girl is today fighting for her life after being involved in a collision with a car last night.

Residents will have a last chance Thursday to tell county leaders what they think about American K-9 Interdiction's proposal to open a military dog training facility in Walters.

Oscar-winning film director Anthony Minghella died today at the age of 54. He suffered complications following surgery last week for cancer of the tonsils and neck, his agent said.

Cries for help from a man who died after getting stuck in a storm drain were ignored by neighbours because they thought it was simply drunken antics, an inquest heard today.

A CYCLIST was seriously injured after a road traffic collision in Wootton on Saturday.

Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide described the storm, which struck Southern England and Wales last Friday night, November 13, as the "strongest storm of the season." Winds gusting up to 160 kilometers per hour were recorded on the Isle of Wight; 96 km/h gusts were recorded in Southampton and as far inland as parts of London.

'Sad reflection on society': Neighbours ignored death cries of man trapped in drain thinking it was a drunken prank By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 7:17 PM on 17th November 2009 Inquest: Mark Wells, 32, suffocated in a storm drain The death cries of a man trapped head-first down a storm drain went ignored by his neighbours in what a coroner ...

A list of Britain's top 50 unsung heroes has been drawn up to mark the 15th anniversary on Thursday of the National Lottery.

MORE than a third of people killed in road traffic accidents in the south are young, figures have revealed.

A 6-year-old Windsor Elementary School student - injured in a head-on collision that killed her mother and injured her younger brother during Thursday's nor'easter - was released Monday from Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters , said a hospital spokesman.

As the south coast recovers from the tornadoes and torrential rain that battered the country all weekend, news that more of the same can be excepted towards the end of this week will not make good reading for Dorset residents.

The storm on Saturday was the worst so far this year, and it hit southern Britain hardest of all.

Heavy rain and winds of up to 100 miles an hour are causing flooding, closing roads and disrupting transport across southern Britain.

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Homes have been damaged and parts of the south coast flooded as the biggest storm of the year so far batters Britain.

A STRING of flood warnings were issued last night as gales and heavy rain were set to lash the south today.

A NEWPORT man was jailed for two years and has to register as a sex offender after admitting having sex with a girl aged under 16.

More than 155,000 Dominion customers are currently without power in Virginia, with more than 147,000 of those customers centered in the coastal region.

TWO hundred jobs are to be axed at the Isle of Wight Council. The move is an attempt by the Council's ruling Tory administration to prevent a potential A 12 million black hole over the next three years.

A SHANKLIN newsagent says he and his family are being targeted by racist thugs who, he says, have smashed windows on his premises an estimated 20 times in the past seven years.

TWO men are due to appear at the Isle of Wight Magistratesa Court tomorrow , charged in connection with burglaries that took place in Ventnor.

A 72-YEAR-old Gwent man died after a collision on the A467 Risca by-pass last night.

Pictures of a blonde woman with a big smile were on a conference room table in the Isle of Wight Sheriff's Office.

Gwent lotto winners Les Scadding and wife Samantha Peachey-Scadding bought their ticket from the same store as another Gwent lotto millionaire.

A CHEPSTOW family was left devastated after an arson attack wreaked havoc on their home and destroyed nearly all their possessions.

OTAGO PENINSULA, NEW ZEALAND. With the first half decidedly laid-back and the second portion anything but, the mix of scenery and sweat make this one of the best one-day rides in the country.

SOUTHAMPTON City Council has been denied extra funding to administer the Government's free bus travel scheme for pensioners.

Caption: Kelly Jones of the Stereophonics Isle of Wight Music Festival 2009 - Day 2 Isle of Wight, England .... STEREOPHONICS frontman KELLY JONES is set to add filmmaker to his resume - after actor SEAN PENN offered to help him launch a movie career.

Everybody was in the pink... 9:10pm Sunday 1st November 2009 Comments Have your say PEOPLE across Gwent dressed in pink on Friday to raise money for breast cancer charities.

A FORMER Royal British Legion social club could be turned into a strip club on the Isle of Wight.

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A CAMPAIGN has been launched to warn workers of the dangers of asbestos as figures show it killed almost 1,300 people in the South over the last quarter of a century.

Two competing companies both want to bring in outpatient surgery centers. A Sentara Healthcare, based in Norfolk, and Riverside Health System of Newport News want state approval to open facilities in the Benns Church area of the county.A But hospitals executives say the state will only approve one application.

A SPECIAL bus service that ferries patients and visitors between Newport bus station and the Royal Gwent and St Woolos Hospitals will continue to operate after agreement between health and transport bosses Difficulties with financing the popular service had led to fears that it might be discontinued, but now Newport Transport, who run the service, ...

A man who died when his car collided with an ambulance on a 999 call has been named.

A seven per cent drop in crime is a good solid start to improving the policing service to the communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, says the counties' chief constable as he marks the end of his first year in office.

The scene of the accident on East Cowes Road this afternoon. Picture by PETER BOAM.

A FORMER Surrey Police officer has appeared in court accused of causing the death of a 75-year-old pedestrian who was killed in a collision with his patrol car in Hersham.

A man was killed today when the car he was travelling in collided head-on with an ambulance responding to a 999 call for a seriously-ill baby.

The county's department of emergency services has jumped on the Twitter bandwagon.

A TEACHER who had an affair with a pupil has been jailed today - and left a 'broken man' after the relationship cost him his wife, home and career.