Bembridge, United Kingdom News

An outstanding opportunity has arisen to aquire a leasehold houseboat plot in the beautiful Bembridge harbour looking out across the Solent from the Isle of Wight.

TREES have been brought down as the Isle of Wight was hit by high winds this morning .

PUBLIC loos in Bembridge could receive a facelift costing almost A 20,000 next year, thanks to a grant of A 9,377 from the Isle of Wight Council, which would be match-funded by the village's parish council.

At the passing out parade at Ryde Fire Station, the new recruits are inspected by, from left, chief fire officer Steve Apter, Cllr Barry Abraham, of the Isle of Wight Council, and watch manager Andy Cave.

CELEBRATED author James Joyce had it all wrong when one of his characters described a pier as: "A disappointed bridge". Far from being disappointments, piers were practical celebrations of Victorian engineering brilliance, which enabled pleasure, passenger and cargo boats to beat the tides and promenaders to take the sea air.