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Business owners are invited to join the Isle of Wight Council and Public Health England for a free one hour webinar.

The Isle of Wight Council is reminding everyone that the Island will not be open for visitors this February half-term due to coronavirus lockdown measures.

The Met Office have today issued a Level 3 Cold Weather Alert for the South East Region, covering the Isle of Wight, which means that there is a 90% chance of severe cold weather over the weekend and lasting into next week.

The Isle of Wight Council has announced an ambitious £55 million capital investment package to help recover and rebuild the Island in the years ahead — as it comes out of the global coronavirus pandemic.

Spring is on its way, gardens will be blooming and it’s time to renew green garden waste subscriptions!

A special discretionary grant scheme to help Island businesses during the current lockdown is to close for applications this Friday (5 February) – having so far paid out £2 million to more than 500 applicants.

The Island's COVID-19 testing centre is now open seven days a week.

On Thursday 6 May 2021, Islanders will go to the polls to have their say on who represents them at the Isle of Wight Council, town, parish and community council and police and crime commissioner elections.

People are being invited to have their say on the future of an Island primary school.

Work has begun to demolish redundant farm buildings in preparation for the first phase of a project at the Isle of Wight Council's former Branstone Farm Studies Centre at Apse Heath.

A range of Island businesses and organisations has been involved in creating a new £13.6 million scheme including affordable housing, an outdoor education area, new green space, a rural business park area, and a new brewery and visitor centre for Goddard’s Brewery.