Why the Isle of Wight’s high streets could become the best in England
Just under a year ago I wrote about the likely impact of COVID-19 on our high streets. American management consultancy
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Open for business, but not for YOU?
Are there Isle of Wight natives who have yet to bob across the Solent to set foot in Hampshire? Perhaps
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Squirrels don’t owe you anything
A letter in the Isle of Wight County Press (CP 12/4/19) from Steve Shaw raised a query about the Island’s
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The great wall of Ryde
Anybody who’s ever listened to ‘Desert Island Discs’ will surely have asked themselves what their own special recordings and luxury
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Seeing the Isle of Wight in a revolutionary way
While in St Thomas’ Square, Newport the other day I noticed en passant that Oggies fish restaurant was for sale.
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The best things in Wight are free
I love a bargain. Now that car boot sale season has started up again I can be found hunched over
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Tune your telly to ‘Wight Gold’
These days we hoover up TV programmes via satellite boxes, on our smartphones, or at our convenience with an on-demand
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Monty Python’s Life of Wight
On my commute to Newport the other day I had plenty of time for contemplation, sitting in stationary traffic. With
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If you plant it, they will come
We can all pinpoint a moment when our lives would never be the same again. Perhaps the birth of a
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When Sandown (briefly) became the city of the future
What have Ridley Scott’s neo-noir thriller Blade Runner and a hand-knitted tea cosy got in common? That’s right! Pedestrianisation! Watching
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