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  • Car crashes into parked car in Cowes

    EMERGENCY crews were called to Cowes this afternoon (Sunday) after a car crashed into a parked vehicle. An Isle of Wight Ambulance Service spokesperson said paramedics were called to the scene, at Baring Road, by police, at 3.46pm. The two occupants

  • Chale Show was fun, but the judging was brutal

    ONE of my oldest friends, let’s call her Old Rosie, persuaded me to enter some of the classes in the Chale Show a couple of weeks ago. I had form. In 1977, when I was 12, our village, Merstone, held a summer show. I entered the kids’ cake competition

  • Town needs love

    From Crusty Sandown resident (name supplied but withheld): Failing to act on the speculators’ destruction of Sandown is not the only sin committed by our indolent authorities. They have deliberately squeezed the life out of this once lovely