Cowes - (Fisting News): "It's probably one of the last ancient feudal perks that Islanders enjoy since the abolition of hanging," the Oscar winner remarked, "and undoubtedly a huge tourism draw." The British actress was speaking on The Late Late S...
Isle of Wight News last night received confirmation that American Master Detective, Inspector Morse, is to fly to the UK from New York City to assist Island policemen in cracking the case of the Ryde Wheelie Bin Rifler. Inspector Morse became an i...
The annual Ventnor Country Show that happens every year will not be stopped because of the restriction on horse movement put in place last week. Show organiser, William McWilliam, 44, is adamant: "The Ventnor country show even took place during th...
Sandown - Local residents met last evening at Norbert's Fish and Chips to discuss plans to construct a ditch west of town towards Newchurch. Town clerk Noel Worthington presented plans completed by the civil engineer which he said are ready for tende...
A Dorset man was said to be 'beside himself' today after suffering a massive personal loss, after a horrific accident. The accident occurred last night, at about 10:30pm in his local public house. Gesticulating wildly whilst telling a rather slurr...
Newport - Tourism Director Terrence Knight was excited to announce results of an excitement poll today indicating that excitement here on the island is at record levels." "I am sure I can speak for all islanders that this is the most exciting news we have had in some time now." While the poll indicates that excitement is at high levels no indication was given as to what was behind all the ex...
Orlando Puckerbum is 46 years old. He lives in Ryde. This is his story - in his own words. For me, one day is pretty much the same as the next. I know exactly how most of it will develop, and it rarely changes. Nothing radical anyway. Just tiny differences. Subtle ones. Like what I have for breakfast. It's almost always Corn Flakes or Weetabix, but sometimes I change it, just to keep myself...
With news fresh off the press that Wyclef Jean is contemplating running for President of Haiti, it comes as no surprise that Mark King, lead vocalist and bassist in the band Level 42, is running for Governor of the Isle of Wight. King was born in...
Isle of Wight born musician Wyclef Jean has said he will run for president of the Spoof hit Solent island. The Fugees star will officially announce his candidacy on Radio Solent's Julian Clegg's breakfast show on Thursday. The Isle of Wight is...
The Ryde Development Corporation, chaired by gay Mayor Vernon Adcock - resplendent in the traditional Mayoral ermine robes and crocodile-skin boots, with stovepipe hat and clutching a traditional Cumberland sausage, shallow fried - today granted tent...
Chamber of Commerce officials on the Isle of Wight are looking into the shocking demise of a Colonist stranded on the island after an Irish Low Budget Flight glided into the local airport when lack of fuel kept the plane from reaching Heathrow. Th...
Cowes - (Local Mess): An Isle of Wight man has become an online sensation after US rap star Kanye West began following him on social nitworking site Twitter. Ventnor Alms Houses resident Reggie Postlethwaite, 69, was said to be gobsmacked yesterda...
For many years, Ryde man, 'Captain' Gilbert Grapefruit has been regarded as an amiable local eccentric, what with his perambulations along Ryde Esplanade wearing a sailor hat, blowing a whistle, and hoisting flags whenever the situation availed itsel...
Investigations into the tragic death of Calbourne man Dennis 'Den' Tystrie have swiftly revealed the tortured tale behind what Police are calling the suicide of the bachelor Chief Egg-Grader, writes Hailey Tociss, Crime, Dentistry, Antiques, Coarse Fishing, Short-Wave Radio, Classical Literature, Victorian Engineering, Commodities, Tartan and Cortical Architectonics Correspondent. Mr Tystrie, 5...
The literary community on the Isle of Wight is set to be enhanced, enlarged and enlivened by the arrival on the island of critically-acclaimed poet Len Blatt, winner of the 2002 Cromer Prize for his silent play A Lancashire Muslim in Harry Ramsden's,...
Amateur fossil hunter, Norman Soffett from Southampton, has reportedly discovered a skull dating back almost 2 million years, pre-dating the most recent ice-age. If, as believed, the skull belongs to the Pliocene epoch of the Tertiary period, then...
Ryde - Isle of Wight - Trinity Street resident Starvin Moondust, a former hippy and hangover from the IOW festival decades ago when Hendrix was still strutting his stuff, has decided to assist the island's ailing economy by opening a museum of techno...
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