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Friday, March 12, 2010
Chale plot is a  page turner

Chale plot is a page turner

WIGHT LIVINGFOR years it lay untended, with nothing to mark its incredible story, but the little-known history of a small plot at an Island cemetery has finally been revived.
Friday, March 12, 2010

Wrong but finally I made it right

THIS ISLAND LIFEMOST journalists (especially those of a sporting persuasion) issue opinions as a matter of course.
Normally they are quickly forgotten as the deathless prose is awarded its place of honour at the bottom of the budgie cage.
Friday, March 12, 2010

Dilute a G&T to get best effect?

THE VIEW FROM HEREBEN Goldacre is a doctor whose book, Bad Science, has brought much happiness to those of us unconvinced by the shenanigans of quackery and hocum within the therapeutic, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Gift of life on mother’s day

Gift of life on mother’s day

GARDENINGMOTHER’S Day approaches and woe betide the son, daughter or husband who forgets to thank mum for all she does.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Bad press for orchids

Bad press for orchids

GARDENINGORCHIDS have a very bad reputation as difficult to keep alive.
Not so, they really only require the minimum attention to thrive because they demand so little and give so much.
Friday, March 12, 2010
A tree can be a treat

A tree can be a treat

GARDENINGNOT the most glamorous of Mother’s Day gifts, but a fruit tree can be a peach of a present, or the apple of her eye.
Friday, March 12, 2010

Gift of life on mother’s day

GARDENINGTICKETS go on sale today (Friday) for this year’s Robin Hill Garden Show.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Shiver me timbers, a ship-shape home

Shiver me timbers, a ship-shape home

PROPERTY OF THE WEEKA PRETTY period home in a popular spot at Wootton gets its name from magnolia trees in the attractive front garden and has many more appealing features to discover.
Friday, March 12, 2010

Looking Back: Friday, March 12, 2010

Looking Back
100 Years Ago | 75 Years Ago | 50 Years Ago | 25 Years Ago | 10 Years Ago
100 Years Ago - March 12, 1910
A YOUNG gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery was charged with the theft of a bicycle, worth £8, and clothes worth £5.
Friday, March 12, 2010

Long-lost siblings

ISLANDERS REUNITEDFrom Carole Lesley Hyatt, (nee Hutchins), 16 Cil Y Graig, DWYRAN, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Isle of Anglesey, LL61 6BD, E-mail: carolelesley@googlemail.com Tel: 01248430918:
I CAME over to the Island in February to research family history.
Everyone was so helpful, although we did hit a wall when making enquiries about Fred Hutchins, formerly of 15 Lower Highland Street.
Friday, March 12, 2010

Gaps need filling

ISLANDERS REUNITEDFrom Patrica Skinner, Essex:
I AM trying to locate my cousins who live on the Island.
I want to put together a family tree and have big gaps readers might be able to fill.
Friday, March 12, 2010

Can you help us with our book?

ISLANDERS REUNITEDFrom Chris Vowles and Pam Wilson, 41 Strathmore Road, Worthing, BN13 1PF.
E-mail:
pamwilson10@tiscali.co.uk Tel: 01903 244389:
WE ARE writing a book about the Canadian service personnel station in Worthing, during the Second World War, and hope your readers can help.
Friday, March 12, 2010

Looking for Arctic veteran

ISLANDERS REUNITEDFrom A. W. Penstone (NRC 105), Shanklin:
I AM trying to contact Mr Reg Collis, a veteran of the Arctic convoys and a member of the North Russia Club, membership number 366, who moved to the Island from the Aldershot area.
Friday, March 12, 2010

What happens to roads until PFI time?

LETTERS

From Andy Redhead, Shanklin:
THE state of the roads on the Island is appalling — I don’t think anyone would argue with that.
So PFI funding for the roads will be welcome (in whatever format that finally takes). However, we won’t see any much-needed funding until 2013. Three years away at the earliest.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Attack on Pugh was gutter press at worst

LETTERS

From the Rev Howard Cunnington, Sandown:
I WOULD like, through the medium of your newspaper, to protest in the strongest possible terms at the disgraceful and totally unwarranted feature about Cllr David Pugh printed last week in the IW Gazette.