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Open for business, but not for YOU?

2nd May, 2021 Cat James 0 Comments COVID-19, isle of wight, iwcp, tourism

Are there Isle of Wight natives who have yet to bob across the Solent to set foot in Hampshire? Perhaps

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Red Squirrel. Photograph by Ray eye
Invasive species Isle of Wight Red Squirrels & Grey Squirrels 

Squirrels don’t owe you anything

29th March, 2021 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments isle of wight, iwcp, non-native

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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Simeon Street recreation ground
Coastal defence County Press articles Isle of Wight 

The great wall of Ryde

23rd February, 202123rd February, 2021 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments coastal, isle of wight, iwcp

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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Chequers Inn Road
County Press articles Isle of Wight 

Seeing the Isle of Wight in a revolutionary way

18th December, 202016th November, 2020 Cat James 0 Comments isle of wight, iwcp, transport

While in St Thomas’ Square, Newport the other day I noticed en passant that Oggies fish restaurant was for sale.

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IW Bus Museum
County Press articles Isle of Wight 

The best things in Wight are free

16th November, 2020 Cat James 0 Comments isle of wight, iwcp

I love a bargain. Now that car boot sale season has started up again I can be found hunched over

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Wight Gold
County Press articles Isle of Wight 

Tune your telly to ‘Wight Gold’

15th October, 202011th October, 2020 Cat James 0 Comments funny, isle of wight, iwcp

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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Isle of Wight County Press 1979
County Press articles Isle of Wight 

Monty Python’s Life of Wight

5th October, 20205th October, 2020 Cat James 0 Comments isle of wight, iwcp

On my commute to Newport the other day I had plenty of time for contemplation, sitting in stationary traffic. With

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Cat James and Matthew CCat James and Matthew Chatfield scrutinising fliesHatfield scrutinising flies
County Press articles Hedges and hedgelaying Isle of Wight 

If you plant it, they will come

22nd September, 2020 Cat James 0 Comments invertebrates, isle of wight, iwcp

We can all pinpoint a moment when our lives would never be the same again. Perhaps the birth of a

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Sandown Christmas market
County Press articles Isle of Wight Roads and transport 

When Sandown (briefly) became the city of the future

22nd September, 202022nd September, 2020 Cat James 0 Comments isle of wight, iwcp, pedestrianisation, roads

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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Cat and her 'Helmet' bus
County Press articles Isle of Wight 

An invitation to rummage through my dusty archive

22nd September, 2020 Cat James 0 Comments archive, design, isle of wight, iwcp

Another year has popped up its shiny head, prompting folk to wield that metaphorical new broom and make promises to

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