News

The latest newsletter from our Primary School leads on the Mothers' Day Service to be held on Wednesday - parents are encouraged to walk with their children to the Parish Church to share in the event.

A meeting last night at Brading Station established the Friends of Brading Station as an organisation committed to preserve and progress the refurbished station and sgnal box. Officers were elected, a constiution adopted and the first members recruited.

In a special edition of his weekly Bulletin to Ward Councillors, Isle of Wight Chief Executive Steve Beynon has today announded Government approval of the Island's Outline Business Plan and committed £364.6M towards it.

The Green Island Newsletter from the Big Green Island Project CIC has been electronically published today and information about a car-free-scheme, the Green Business Scheme and useful links.

Last night's meeting of the Town Council adopted a new schedule for its routine meetings during the rest of 2010, moving from the previous pattern of the fourth Thursday of each month to the first Thursday.

Figures released by the government today show that there are now 3,572 more homes on the Island than in 2005; the growth rate of 5.66% is the fifth fastest among the 67 local authorities in the South East region.

The Isle of Wight Council has announced that Brading's High Street will be closed to through traffic from 7pm to midnight on Monday 1 March for anti-skid surfacing works. If bad weather prevents the work being done that evening, the closure will be in operation either Tuesday or Wednesday.

As the government celebrates the national decline in tennage pregnancies revealed in figures published today, the Isle of Wight figures have moved in theopposite directions for the last three years.

The Isle of Wight Council has announced today that temporaary traffic lights will be in operation from 7pm - 9pm one evening between Friday 5 March and Sunday 7 March while anti-skid surfacing is laid. Traffic delays will occur.

Age Concern IW are looking to set up a Good Neighbour scheme in which volunteers provide one-off services to older residents in response to requests received by the volunteer co-ordinators by mobile phone.