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Friday, May 9, 2008
THE BODY of a young Island man was discovered in a wooded area on cliffs near Ventnor yesterday afternoon (Thursday).
Coastguards, cliff rescue teams and emergency services were called to Smugglers Haven, Luccombe Chine, at around 2pm.
The body of the 21-year-old, among trees on sloping ground about 30ft above the beach, was discovered by a man walking along the coastal trail between Shanklin and Ventnor yesterday afternoon.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
A POPULAR Island cricketer, who died on Thursday last week, may have been wrongly prescribed drugs at St Mary’s Hospital, an inquest into his death heard.
Roland ‘Roly’ Henry Ringer, 67, of Chambers Drive, Winford, had collapsed at home on the day he died.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
PLANS for the Big Green Picnic have turned into an asphalt jungle, critics said this week.
They have pointed to the event, designed to underline Eco-Island credentials, being switched from Church Litten to County Hall’s car park — a decision defended by the IW Council.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
GOVERNMENT minister Jonathan Shaw talks exclusively to CP editor Alan Marriott.
THE Island’s tourism industry will only flourish if the IW Council and the chamber of commerce bury the hatchet and start to co-operate, a government minister has warned.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
TIRED of waiting for the IW Council to collect an abandoned mattress, a woman from Newport took matters into her own hands by dumping it on the steps of County Hall.
After the mattress fell off a lorry outside Stylish Windows, in Long Lane on Wednesday last week, office manager Lisa May removed it from the road, put it outside the office and phoned the council to report it.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
THE WITHDRAWAL of subsidies for low-income families using services to kill vermin could lead to a huge health risk on the Island, fears a leading pest controller.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
ISLAND playwright Charlotte Barton-Hoare raised a few eyebrows on Saturday as she headed to London with a life-size skeleton in tow.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
THE first set of triplets to survive infancy on the Island celebrated their 60th birthdays on Saturday.
Bob, Art and Mike England celebrated with friends and family at Mike’s home in the Broadway, Totland, 60 years after their birth caused a stir on the Island.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
THE closure of the only optician in Bembridge has been met with dismay by residents.
Dencer-Brown Opticians, which has been in the village for 25 years and occupies the same building as the council chamber, will close in August following the sale of the premises by Bembridge Parish Council.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
A MERMAID sculpture modelled on Olympic medal-winning swimmer and TV presenter Sharron Davies was presented to Royal Yacht Squadron members on Saturday.
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