The Isle of Wight News has reported that little Billy Murray of Newby village claims to be related to top tennis player, Andy Murray. Apparently when little Billy 'Googled' Andy he found they had a lot in common. They are both male and have t...
Carol Spritzer is launching the Isle of Wight News 'Pride of The Isle Awards 2011' nominations appeal, in partnership with Littleworths.web. Each year she gets teary when she sees the winners and listens to their stories. This year will be no dif...
The summer holidays are just around the corner, and the Island's tourist attractions are girding their loins for yet another bumper season, writes Tourism, Philately, Lacrosse, Bingo, Psychiatry, Indo-Chinese Drama and Phrenology correspondent, Herbert Ffountaine. I spoke to Eric Ladle, General Manager of the Island's Tourist Information Centres, yesterday. We had a jolly interesting conversati...
Police officers on The Isle of Wight are being sent on a strange training course that uses clips of singers Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle to explain issues surrounding equality and diversity to staff. Those in attendance also have to listen to a varie...
With the Isle of Wight Festival gathering all of the headlines at the moment, the Ventnor Carnival and Funfair has failed to hit the spotlight yet again. "We've had a carnival and funfair every year for the past three hundred and ninety two years,...
Residents of the Isle of Wight are 'raking it in' exporting cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce to all parts of the world. This small island, ignored by many, is now on the lips of millions of people worldwide as they begin to eat salad items again wi...
There is anger in Cowes as news emerges that the chain ferry tariff is set to increase from next month. The chain ferry that has been in operation for over a hundred years almost continuously, give or take the occasional break down (the last laste...
Residents of The Isle of Wight believe they have enough talented football players to start a 'League of their own' and therefore interested residents across he Isle are busy organizing try-outs for teams. Mayors of each village do admit that they...
The Isle of Wight has disappeared under a large grey cloud said to have come from the direction of Iceland. No communication has been made between the Isle and the Mainland for over 4 hours, causing concern. Search and rescue parties headed out...
Residents of many villages on The Isle of Wight have been preparing for the end of the world, like many people worldwide. Newby mayor, Arthur Askme (yes - he is STILL in office) told our intrepid female reporter that Newby residents have been prep...
A family in Ventnor, has unwittingly set the land speed record in a house. The previous holders, the Robinsons of Francis, Oregon, travelled at twenty-two miles an hour in the back of their house as it was moved from Francis to Peppermill, some th...
Two years after taking away the play equipment in the rec just off Gamble Lane in Wootton, the council have finally relented to people-pressure to return facilities to the park. What they have provided is a wall. "It's a nice wall," said local...
I just cannot believe what I have just been reading in the Approval Centre and on the Discussion Forum... Man U. beaten by City. I'm crying in my beer. I get 90% of my daily news via the Spoof. It is just so bloody heartbreaking to think that the only televised game we got here was bloody Blackpool v Wigan. I must subscribe to Setanta Sport. I was in a great mood before I saw that r...
A Ventnor shopkeeper has earned a top accolade from a prestigious retail consortium for providing "tip-top, beyond-the-call" customer service. Daisy Prang, who runs the general store in Pillock Hill Road, has received a rosette from the Castleford...
Charlie Sheen has decided to take at least a week off from touring to spend some time in Newby Village on the Isle of Wight. He's read a lot about the Isle of Wight and the villagers who make it their home and is keen to get away from the Rat Race...
with Goosander This week we devote the puzzle page to: THE MICHAELMAS PRIZE "SHAFTER" CROSSWORD by RECTUM Clues Across 1 Antelope straddled by Eric Pickles (no tongues!) [5, 8, 4] 11 Nausea caused by Toyah Wilcox in batter? [11] 12 Simulacrum of Simon Cowell in a symbolic scrotum [5,2] 13/16 Cold collineation in an oast house? [3, 3, 7, 5] 17 Don't shoot me, I'm only t...
News just in - There's been an astonishing twist of events just off the Bembridge shoreline as spectacularly large shoals of baked beans began amassing just yards out to sea. Crowds of local children - many wearing odd socks - who were initially l...
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