Ten years ago: Rock legends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards appeared larger than life on the Island days before their eagerly anticipated appearance at the IW Festival.
Adorning the wall of a Ventnor home was a mural of the pair, which was designed and painted in two days by artist Anne Turner.
Over the years Anne, 47, had painted countless pictures on the side of her Newport Road home but this one stirred up even more excitement than usual.
Anne said: “I have had people clapping and cheering.”

100 Years Ago
June 9, 1917

THE IW County Council decided to take serious measures to try to stamp out venereal disease.
The county medical officer put forward schemes for the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, including the use of the laboratory at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital.
There was to be a skilled medical officer and all the instruments, dressings, and drugs that would be needed.
The cost of the scheme was £824 (£52,457 in today’s money), which would be split between the local board and the Chancellor of the Exchequer.


75 Years Ago
June 13, 1942

THERE were three conscientious objectors from the Island put before a tribunal in Reading.
In a statement, one applicant, Dudley Croft Goode, of Blackwater, said to associate himself with war was utterly unthinkable.
He said: “The whole of humanity is my nation and I have a great desire to be of service to it.”
He said when he was 15 he looked at the world and felt what a terrible mass of evil there seemed to be and how ghastly the suffering and brutality of war was.
The chairman noted his objections were more philosophical than conscientious and placed him in non-combatant service.


50 Years Ago
June 9, 1967

A meeting of the Conservative Association at Ryde concluded the best course of action to secure Britain’s future in the face of its declining empire was to join the European Economic Community.
Conservative MP Alderman Mark Woodnutt said he hoped the country would take its “rightful place at the heart of things in Europe”.


25 Years Ago
June 12, 1992

DOG?fouling was such a problem the South Wight environmental health chiefs considered investing in a £50,000-a-year pooper scooter.
Members of the committee agreed to allow officers to investigate purchasing the machine.
The decision came in response to continuing complaints from the community, with the latest being a 185-name petition from parents and children at Gatten and Lake Primary School, exhorting the council to get tough with offenders.


10 Years Ago
June 8, 2007

A NEWPORT couple pledged to leave their £200,000 bungalow as a legacy to the IW Society for the Blind.
They also hoped to encourage other blind and sight-impaired Islanders to socialise more by donating their Scandinavian log cabin to the society.
David and Sylvia Reed spent £2,700 having a pine log cabin transported from Finland to the front garden of their home in Furrlongs, Newport, so the society could hold social functions for its users.