Bembridge, United Kingdom News

Peter Dymond from New Milton, Hampshire, a former Chief Coastguard at the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and now Project Manager for the volunteer Coastguard Rescue Service, has been awarded the OBE for services to HM Coastguard, Maritime Safety and UK search and rescue.

UNLESS politicians come up with long-term solutions to global warming, Island coastal towns will be submerged by rising tides, an engineer warned at the first Climate Change and Civil Engineering Conference on the Isle of Wight.

POLICE on the Isle of Wight have launched a community crackdown on antisocial behaviour on National Trust land on the Island.

BEMBRIDGE Parish Council has agreed to refinance its A 111,000 loan from the Public Works Loan Board.

That is the proportion that wanted troops home immediately. A further 38% favoured the withdrawal of most troops soon, with final remnants to leave within roughly a year, according to the Channel 4 News/YouGov poll a ' the story forgot to mention this 38% group .

WARTIME entertainer Dame Vera Lynn is to visit the Isle of Wight on Armistice Day, at the invitation of two Island schools.

Stroud Rambling Club IOW holiday EARLY in September, 19 members of the Stroud Rambling Club journeyed by coach to the Southhampton ferry terminal en-route to the Hambledon Hotel, Shanklin to experience a week's walking on the Isle of Wight.

Lifeboats, the Pont Aven ferry and two helicopters, one from HMS Ark Royal, were all involved in the search.

BUSINESSES and individuals are backing the hospicea s colourful campaign to raise much-needed cash.

Blind Colin McArthur at the controls of the Bembridge Lifeboat. Colin is at the helm, middle, with cox Steve Simmonds, left and Christine White, right, who accompanied Colin.

Presenting the cheque to Bembridge Lifeboat operations manager Graham Hall are, from left, Sarah Noyes, Liz Mitchell and Penny Watts, of Brading Haven Yacht Club social committee.

BEMBRIDGE Lifeboat went to the aid of two vessels stricken by power failure. The Peggy and Alex Caird rescued a crew of four from the 28ft-long yacht, Petala, in choppy conditions, eight miles south of St Catherinea s Point, on Sunday afternoon.

FIREFIGHTERS returned to Brading Marshes this morning following a large fire last night.

ADVENTURER Martin Woodward is planning to climb Africaa TMs highest mountain and cycle the perimeter of New Zealand a ' before Christmas.

YOUa TMVE heard of a bottle bank, what about a book bank? The Isle of Wight Council, in partnership with Island Waste, has installed book banks around the Island so that unwanted books can be given a new lease of life through a scheme operated by the British Heart Foundation.

The adults, both aged in their mid-30s, had left Yaverland that afternoon and were overdue returning to shore.

Man and steam machine in perfect harmony. AN ISLAND man was part of a team of engineers to break the longest-standing world land speed record a ' which has remained untouched for more than a century.

BRITAINa S tourism supremo has confessed she is a 'massive fana of the Isle of Wight following a recent holiday.

FIREFIGHTERS set up an exclusion zone around a cylinder containing inflammable gas at Embankment Road, Bembridge, yesterday evening .

Despite this the 65-year-old, who lives in Crowthorne, is having a fantastic time in his year as Bracknell Forest's first citizen and says he would not change a thing.