The Isle of Wight Zoo at Yaverland has been cut off from the outside work by two sets of road works. The on-going roadworks on Yaverland Road, the B3396, have over-run with a scheduled completion date now set for early December, whilst sewer impro...
Hollywood fever gripped the Island yesterday when Johnny Depp was reported to be visiting Alum Park and the Needles. The Pirates of the Caribbean star was said to have been seen around lunch time with his French pop singer wife Vanessa Paradis, pr...
The Post Office are set to issue a new range of stamps for avid collectors everywhere depicting the islands of England and Wales. It was determined that there were too many islands in Scotland to use those. The Isle of Wight will be the face of the f...
An Isle of Wight woman was recovering at home today after collapsing when she received a postcard. Mrs Dorothy Doily, 57, of Little Atherfield, was rushed to hospital yesterday following the morning delivery by her postman. "I always like to be...
The Strategic and Defence Security Review is eagerly awaited by many armed forces personnel, as it appears massive cuts are to be made across the defensive board. Not least of those awaiting its results are the twenty strong Armed Response Unit ba...
An urgent overhaul of hospital security was launched in Isle of Wight hospitals last night after a man was found to have "walked in" to an NH Walk-In Centre in Shanklin. Sources close to NHS authorities on the island described the security breach...
Residents of The Isle of Wight have turned to the media to assist them in handling their 'out of control' teenagers. They have contacted 'Dr Phil', the American Talk-Show host with over 30 years' of experience dealing with whatever comes his way. Dr. Phil has agreed to visit the Isle of Wight, with his crew, wife and 'top of the line psychologists' in an attempt to offer a glimmer of hope to...
Makers of the detective time traveling drama on BBC1 have decided that filming Ashes To Ashes in London is far too expensive. Finding places that look like the are still in the eighties, or dressing up sites to make them look more eighties-like, is b...
The Horse Movement Restriction put in place in July due to the outbreak of Horse Immunoglobulin Virus has been lifted. The Council of the Isle of Wight have decreed that the outbreak has been contained, and is now only affecting horses in the sout...
Ventnor library has been suffering with a general decline in visitors over the past year, and the local council have made the reluctant decision to close it. "In 1999 reading rates were at their highest since records began," said councillor Helmut...
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...
At last Monday's IOW Tourism Board meeting in Cowes, the proposal to build a high-speed train system from Cowes to Ryde was again pushed to the front of the agenda. County planners have long held that such a system would do much to bring even more to...
St. James Church in East Cowes is again the location of one of the most exciting annual festivals held on the Isle of Wight--the Isle of Wight Jigsaw Puzzle Festival. Puzzlers from all over England are expected to descend upon East Cowes to compete f...
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...
Tomorrow (Wednesday) is the Ventnor Children's Carnival, that point in the Isle of Wight's social calendar that all children on the island look forward to, coming into Ventnor from as far away as Shanklin and Sandford. This year's was set to be th...
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