The world famous Isle of Wight Garlic Festival is looking for the country's Garlicks to come forward and be recognised. "We've been running the Garlic Festival for something like fifteen hundred years," said event organiser, Carl Garlick. "We felt...
Environmentalists have slammed the Island's decision to have a ring of fire around the island to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. Fifteen hundred beacons were set up at quarter mile intervals around the island, and were all lit on Bank Holiday Mond...
A tsunami alert for the Isle of Wight has been issued by the UK Met Office after a landslip in Cuba has sent a wave travelling in our direction. "The tsunami is currently three centimetres high," said Met Office spokesman, Matt Welcomme. "It was c...
Librarian, Gemma Paddlworth, of Ryde has been fined nearly three thousand pounds in late fees for overdue library books. "It's quite embarrassing," said Gemma, 34 a single mother. "I'm the only librarian at Ryde Library, so when I discovered that...
Heather Fields, 24, of Shanklin has put the Isle of Wight on the map thanks to her nails! In the National Nail Championships held at Birmingham's NEC Arena, Heather competed among the country's finest nail growers. "It's such an honour," said H...
The Isle of Wight News is pleased to announce that the Isle of Wight News App is now available from the Apple Store. The new Isle of Wight News App will keep people on the island completely up to date with all the various comings and goings on the...
After the controversy last year when Edith Millpond won Miss Isle of Wight despite being married and dead for three years, this year's competition went without a hitch. It could not have gone to a more deserving girl this time. Miss Isla White...
Master criminal and Isle of Wight's most wanted man, Curly O'Halloran evaded police yet again, after a four hour siege in a barn on the outskirts of Shanklin. The wily thief had recently robbed a bakery van and fled to the secluded barn, with the...
Roy McIlrath pulled back the curtains of his Ventnor home this morning to discover a satellite the size of a bus in his back garden. "I was quite upset," said McIlrath. "It landed on me lettuce. Worse than that, I was keeping me lettuce in me gree...
Rescuers who attempted to rescue a stranded porpoise have come under intense criticism from animal rights activists for their methods in returning the unfortunate creature back out to sea. "The stranded porpoise was found on a beach near Brighston...
Residents of Ryde are up in arms today after the shock revelation that the number 852 bus is to be removed from the schedule. "This is intolerable," said Jasper Featherington-Wright, 89. "The 852 is the only bus that connects Ryde to Newport. If w...
A study released yesterday by advertising agency, Penguin, Basket and Wristflick paints a disturbing picture for the nation's advertising industry. It claims that within five years there will no longer be sufficient advertising space available for...
After the news last week that the public lavatory in Shanklin had been left to go feral, it appears that it has formed a pack of feral public toilets roaming the east coast of the Island. According to eye witness accounts, this pack of feral publi...
The Pay and Display car park just off Zig Zag Street in Ventnor is to have it's parking charge raised from fifty pence an hour to sixty pence for fifty-two minutes. The other car parks are likely to follow suit. "This will kill local trade," said...
The Isle of Wight has tied with the Isle of Man to become England's whiniest places. "I think it's a disgrace," said spokesperson for Tourism and Excuses, Tom Bowler. "This survey has been conducted by some Australian group who came at it from the...
Councillor for the Isle of Wight, David Pugh has come forward as yet another victim of the Snooze of the World Phone Hacking Scandal. "It came to light that journalists were listening in on my telephone calls late last month," said Pugh. "Alison,...
Adult residents of the Isle of Wight are moving, quickly, towards removing the words 'penis' and 'vagina' from use on the Isle. Islanders are tired of their children Googling the words and looking up You Tube videos with the two words in the title...
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