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POLICE launched a massive search in Cowes today (Friday) after a suspected armed raid at the world-famous Benzie jewellers.

THE NHS is gearing-up for the predicted swine flu epidemic.
Amid expectation of a big rise of cases across the UK and the surge of visitors to the Island, public health officials stressed the need to follow national guidance

ALLEGATIONS that a vicious bull terrier injured five dogs and an owner in the West Wight are being probed by police.

A DEEP fat fryer inside an oven is thought to have caused a small fire in a kitchen yesterday evening (Thursday).

STAFF at a fast food restaurant extinguished a small grass fire near Kentucky Fried Chicken, Newport, last night (Thursday).

The £83 million plan to rebuild the Isle of Wight College has been axed, even though £2.5 million has already been spent on plans.
The Learning and Skills Council has told the college it has not won any of the cash it needed to press on with a grand design sixth form and new campus.
The LSC approved only 13 of 180 projects throughout the country, many of which were much more advanced than the Island college, where at least demolition work had not started.

THERE’S to be a warm welcome in the Island’s hillsides for the two Welsh holidaymakers who say they were banned from a Shanklin gift shop for speaking Welsh.

A SINGLE 45-metre blade height wind turbine could be built on land at Span Farm, near Wroxall.

THE County Press was celebrating this week after its website, iwcp.co.uk, attracted a million page views in a month for the first time.

A NAME that has been part of Island high streets for nearly 90 years is to disappear.

THE band Madness looks set to headline an open-air concert planned near Carisbrooke Castle next month but the event is being opposed by English Heritage.

A RYDE man cheated death after falling 50ft during a five-day climbing expedition in Scotland.

POOR mental health is a ‘significant’ issue for the Isle of Wight with around 3.3 per cent of people claiming incapacity benefit citing it as a reason.

CLOSE to £140 million will be paid out by Islanders over the 25 years of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to rebuild roads.

THIS artist’s impression shows Vestas Technology’s new research and development centre on the former West Medina Mills site, on the west bank of the River Medina, just outside Newport.