Isle of Wight County, England News

L. Wayne Farmer, the commonwealth's attorney for Isle of Wight County, has written a strongly worded letter calling for the resignation of Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Byron "Buzz" Bailey and Isle of Wight School Board member Herb DeGroft because of their distribution of racist email.

AN ASSISTANT to Hampshire's Police and Crime Commissioner will receive more than A 10,000 a year for working one day a week.

A SOLID concrete model of a soldier, measuring three feet in height, has been stolen from outside a house in a cul-de-sac in Wimborne.

THE election of a new IW Council earlier this month had its moments. There was the occasional hissy fit, a pleasing amount of indignant posturing and a few discreet hernias sustained by those candidates attempting to straddle the increasingly wide political divide before eventually lurching from one side to the other.

In the short-term, the station will operate as a control base for five sites across England generating power from open cycle gas turbines.

Thorley Farm is the largest block of farmland to come onto the Isle of Wight market for over 10 years.

The magistrates' court off Lower Dock Street will replace the old court in Clytha Park Road which shut in January 2012.

EXPERTS from the British Geological Survey are using new technology help bring the Isle of Wight's celebrated prehistoric history to a global audience.

Clean and cheap -but cheerful? Simon Calder sets the controls of a battery-powered vehicle for an epic journey from the New Forest to nuclear Dorset Simon Calder is Travel Editor at Large for The Independent, writing a weekly column, various articles and features as well as filming a weekly video diary.

FEAST your eyes on this. A whole soft French cheese, one large onion and half a glass of white wine go to make the South East's favourite potato dish.

AN OPEN verdict has been recorded following the death of a woman whose car plunged 250ft off cliffs at Compton Chine last October.

Investigators look for clues to what killed a Midway man near this all-terrain vehicle along Lake Rosalind Road Thusday morning.

Now, five years on - and after spending more than A 1.8m of taxpayers cash on round the clock security for the controversial site - police chiefs are to finally cut their losses and sell it off.

Racially tinged emails forwarded by two officials in this rural county have led to turmoil on the Board of Supervisors and the School Board, calls for the officials' resignations, and may contribute to the departure of the schools superintendent.

A GANG who brought at least A 50,000-worth of heroin to Newport from Bristol were jailed for a total of 34 years.

Tributes have been paid to Isle of Wight man Daniel Dwight. Picture courtesy of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police.

Chief Inspector Nick Heelan is to leave the Isle of Wight to become Detective Chief Inspector of the professional standards department in Winchester.

A thatched cottage in the small hamlet of Roud, within easy reach of the Shanklin seaside resort and the main town of Newport.

IT IS the "pot of gold" that could create hundreds of new jobs and give a much-needed boost to Hampshire businesses.

More than 50 English beaches have met tough new EU standards to receive Blue Flag awards, recognising their high standards and water quality.