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Step back in time on dinosaur trail

Step back in time on dinosaur trail

By Sara Bryce

VIDEO
A DINOSAUR trail and phone app tourism bosses hope will help bring thousands of visitors to the Isle of Wight is due to launch this week.

Cross-Channel charity row postponed

By Ross Findon

A PLANNED charity row this Saturday (June 22) by seven Isle of Wight women across the English Channel has been cancelled due to expected poor weather.

Isle of Wight Festival: Police praise after friendly festival

By Richard Wright

THE number of crimes at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival fell from 216 last year to 125, according to police today (Wednesday).

Jobs help for housing association residents

By a County Press reporter

A HOUSING association has announced plans to help unemployed residents get back to work.

Met Office warns of heavy rain

By a County Press reporter

A WEATHER warning for heavy rain for parts of the Isle of Wight tomorrow (Thursday) has been issued by the Met Office.

Isle of Wight Festival 2013 photo galleries

Isle of Wight Festival galleries

Sport

Swim star Renee set for GB debut

Swim star Renee set for GB debut

SWIMMING AN ISLAND teenager has been selected to represent Great Britain at a sporting event for people with hearing problems.

Angling for England

ANGLING THREE IW anglers are representing England at a Home International tournament next week.

Big prizes up for grabs at Pro-AM

PICTURE GALLERY
GOLF SHANKLIN and Sandown Golf Club was bathed in sunshine for one of its biggest events of the year, its Pro-AM.

IW swimmers star in Crawley

SWIMMING FIVE IW swimmers, the largest number from the IW to have qualified in recent years, competed in the South East Region Age Group Championships in Crawley last weekend.

Features

The day the bombs fell

WIGHT LIVING AN AIR raid warning had disturbed the quiet night at St Catherine’s Lighthouse in the early hours of June 1, 1943, but the next morning, a brilliant summer’s day, saw the three keepers as busy as usual on the site.

How to plant the crown jewels

GARDENINGQUEEN Victoria’s consort would almost certainly have approved of the gardening being conducted at Osborne House at the moment — even if she may have not been amused.

Become to the manor born

PROPERTY OF THE WEEK AMID glorious countryside close to the coast in the beautiful Back of the Wight and with its own lovely leafy acreage is a superb property package centred around a charming Grade II listed manor house.

Jaws of Shanklin Pier

By Keith Newbery

THIS ISLAND LIFE AS expected, mention of the Arreton Valley aardvark and the Wootton Creek anaconda has prompted further revelations about other mystery beasts said to have prowled on — or in this case, swum just off — the IW.

Independent principles? That rings a faint Bell

By Charlotte Hofton

THE VIEW FROM HERE HOW is the mood in the Independent camp as they prepare for their second full council meeting next week under the leadership of Cllr Ian Stephens?

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