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By a County Press reporter
WOWFEST has been given permission to go ahead today (Friday), providing more than 100 new conditions are met and extensive costs are paid up front.
By Martin Neville
A FLOTILLA of vessels of all shapes, ages and sizes will sail up the River Medina tomorrow (Saturday) to attend the annual Riverfest celebration.
A PASSENGER who urinated over a refreshment counter on the Red Jet has been sentenced today (Friday).
By Ross Findon
A BRAVE group of walkers is preparing to walk around the Isle of Wight this weekend.
CONTROLLED explosions will take place this weekend to destroy the Second World War mines that have delayed the building of a new supermarket.
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TABLE TENNISSMILING Lee Orton was determined to have fun at the IW County Press-sponsored Top Ten table tennis tournament at the Carl Prean Centre — and was like the cat who had the cream at the end.
GYMNASTICS THE standard just keeps getting higher and higher in IW gymnastics, as these stars proved at Carisbrooke College last weekend.
SHOOTING SHOOTERS from around the Island gathered at Sainham, Godshill, last weekend, for the IW Gun Club’s annual single-barrel championship.
GOLF JUNIOR golfer Dylan King showed great maturity to defeat a field of senior players to win Newport Golf Club’s Keith Whitcombe Rose Bowl.
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WIGHT LIVING LIKE a missing tooth, Shanklin’s Spa site has been a gap in the seafront for decades.
GARDENING THE almost unprecedented 40 days and 40 nights’ rain (or so it seemed) has had even the most mild-mannered gardener tearing hair.
Looking Back100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago100 Years Ago – May 18, 1912EAST Cowes District Council approved plans for the building of a new Liberal Club, in York Avenue.
By Keith Newbery
THIS ISLAND LIFE AS a cure for verrucas it left something to be desired but the bare-foot stroll over hot embers, which launched the Island’s walking festival, proved a diverting way to spend a Saturday evening.
By Charlotte Hofton
THE VIEW FROM HEREWHEN Margaret Thatcher embarked on a programme of privatisation, Harold Macmillan was scornful. “The sale of assets is common with individuals and states when they run into financial difficulties,” he told the Tory Reform Group in 1985.
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