OneWight champion MP, Andrew Turner, has once again put his hand towards supporting the Isle by putting forward an act to the House of Commons to give the Isle of Wight full status and privileges as an Island within the United Kingdom. Turner beli...
Anybody travelling around our fine island these days can't but be impressed by the prosperity to be seen to and from the big cities to the country and sea to shore. Long-time residents who used to have to walk to school and leave their studies at...
MP Andrew Turner was in Shanklin last week attending the opening of an expansion of Gepetto's, a manufacturing plant for painted concrete garden gnomes. Turner said he was pleased to attend and said that the expansion was keeping on track with his On...
Tragedy struck at this years annual Isle Of Wight Garlic Festival. The festival, which has been running for over 25 years, is a mixture of food, entertainment and fun. Attracting larger and larger crowds each year, the organiser's have had their w...
It is the big Christmas Light switch on in Newport this weekend, and the Council have managed to get Sir Terry Wogan, 71, to press the button, illuminating the pedestrianised areas of Newport shopping centre. Over a thousand bulbs have been installed...
Marjorie Stevens 67, of 10 Bettsworth Crescent, is reported to have dropped a plate yesterday. "It was everyday, not Royal Doulton, hardly news really." "I don't see what all the fuss is about, it was just a plate, now it's broken to bits, I suppose you could blame the hardwood floor if you wanted to but I'm just as well to blame, carelessness is what caused it, carelessness." "I was putt...
With peace talks failing, bombs continuing to go off, the Clintons' bogged down in trying to divvy up the spoils from an outpouring of money for the Haiti boondoggle and Jimmy Carter campaigning to move up to #9 in the "Ten Worst President List", t...
Strikers hoping to bring chaos to the transport system have completely failed, say heads of Isle of Wight business. London Underground workers walked out in two waves at 5pm and 9pm on Monday in a row over job cuts. The strike is the first in a se...
The Island's own radio station, Wight FM, stunned listeners yesterday when disc jockey (DJ) Laffs Mangrove played a record for a local woman. Said the DJ: "It was a bit odd really. There was some post waiting for me when I got to work in the morni...
Council officials have angered local bumpkins on the Isle of Wight, by suggesting they rename the famous Needles near Alum Bay, off the western point of the island. Councillor Wilf Burlap was speaking at a town meeting, called to try and increase...
For the first time in the history of The Isle of Wight, a teenager has been 'grounded'. It sounds like a scene from an American movie. A mother, Gwenny Limbert, has found the strength to 'ground' her daughter, Ann, for a week. When interviewed for the IOW News Gwenny admitted that she was feeling a little bit over-awed after watching a recent episode of the American show 'Dr PHIL'.
Residents of Ventnor were evacuated to Shanklin and Sandown this morning as the Favourable Dairy experienced a meltdown. The meltdown is reported to have occurred due to an operator in the control booth falling asleep during the night shift causing cooling rods in the butter vat to overheat causing a chain reaction in the butter which quickly escalated into an out of control critical situation...
Top Isle of Wight people have welcomed academic research which has established the geographical nature of the holiday destination. Research published by Ryde University yesterday proves that the island is completely surrounded by water. "This i...
HOG JAW, ARKANSAS (ABSNN) -- Stan Stilldamnya, Hog Jaw, Arkansas' answer to the legendary Reg Mellior, former world record holder in Ferret Legging, issued a sharp challenge to the All-England, Scotland and Wales Ferret Leggin "pansies." "Ain't...
Ryde, Isle of Wight - Dozens of people were today named and shamed by Mrs Elsie Bickerstaff of Jockey Mount, Ryde. It has not been clearly ascertained at this point exactly what the people who Mrs Bickerstaff named were being shamed about, as she...
Ryde kebab and pizzeria shop proprietor Ali Bullo, today pitched his views in on the failed twinning bid between Ryde, Isle of Wight and Hog Jaw, Arkansas, USA. Ali Bullo, creator of the Full English Breakfast pizza contacted IOWN to say that he w...
Mayor Vernon Adcock, the first openly gay Mayor of Ryde today announced that Ryde had politely declined offers to be twinned with the township of Hog Jaw, Arkansas, USA. Mayor Adcock, speaking on behalf of Ryde Council, explained that the problem...
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