A press release from the Isle of Wight Council's Trading Standards Team warns that residents are being phoned by a firm called Online PC care and told their computers have problems that they can solve remotely: do not let them in!!
Responses to planning applications need to focus on what planning law refers to as material considerations: the Governance Toolkit for Parish & Town Councils provides lists of what are grounds for responding to a planning application, and what are not.
The much anticipated planning application for the future development of the crucially important for Brading site of the old Waxworks and associated buildings has now been published and is open for comment until 14 May.
Ofsted figures for the percentage of seconday schools in each local authority judged good or outstanding for behaviour have just been published, with the Island recovering some of the ground it lost in 2008.
This week's Cabinet meeting decided to adopt the new principles for the organisation of the Island's Youth Services and delegated responsibility for a further consultation that will provide an implementation plan to take effect from September this year.
When the January snow threatened gridlock in Brading, a group of the Town's young people spontaneously took action that prevented it and preserved pedestrian safety: their actions were celebrated at the Town Council meeting in the Awards made to them.
Brading's Environment & Neighbourhood Officer, Linda Shorter, produces quarterly reports on her work in the area, including Branding; the latest has just been supplied to us.
The Agenda for the next meeting of the Isle of Wight Council on Wednesday 21 April has been published today. As usual, it contains direct links to the papers for the meeting.
A Press Release from the Isle of Wight Council offers advice on some of the issues that have arisen since the change from yesterday to kerbside only collections.
A new study by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation last week shows the disturbing gaps in educational achievement between the children of the rich and those whose parents are economically in poverty.
