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Friday, May 16, 2008
THE VIEW FROM HERE
I MAKE no apology for returning to the subject of the visual vandalism the council, now aided by the police, is wreaking upon the Island.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
VIEW FROM HERE by Alex Dyke
LAST week I was in London’s bustling West End. Despite the crowds I noticed fewer Londoner’s seemed to have a mobile clamped to their ear than the people I see every day in Newport or Ryde.
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Friday, May 2, 2008
THE VIEW FROM HERE
THIS week the hospice wrote to ask if I would present medals at this year’s Walk The Wight. I can’t believe they don’t remember my radio outburst last year.
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Friday, April 25, 2008
THE VIEW FROM HERE
A STUDY concludes too many road signs can make driving more dangerous, with visual distractions pushing up the number of accidents.
This will be of no interest to our council, int...
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Friday, April 18, 2008
THE VIEW FROM HERE
WHY the fuss over Alan Titchmarsh’s appointment as high sheriff of the IW? People are behaving as if the office were something important.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
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EVERYBODY needs to get away at some time and I have discovered a perfect haven of sophistication.
It is a new establishment which, according to its website, is “a decadent, glamorous...
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Friday, April 4, 2008
THE VIEW FROM HERE
WHO could resist the blandishments proffered just two years ago to those applying to be the IW council’s chief executive?
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Friday, March 28, 2008
THE VIEW FROM HERE
I AM pleased to report that Amy Willcock, who behaved so naughtily last year, using such words as “timewarp” and “bitchfest” to describe the Women’s Institute hierarchy, seems to have reformed.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
THE VIEW FROM HERE
THE IW Economic Partnership boasts on its website of “some amazing success” in the decade since it was founded.
Sadly, it has also more recently received some amazing bad news, in...
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Friday, March 14, 2008
THE VIEW FROM HERE
WHAT to do with the Island’s yob element? Binge drinking, violent and vile behaviour, not to mention the language, and many of them hardly beyond infancy.
From nursery school singalong...
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