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Isle of Wight properties going up for auction this month.

Property and land for auction this December

The Sun Inn at Hulverstone is a popular Isle of Wight pub.

How you could be this pub's new landlord or lady

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The King's Head in Yarmouth.

Kings Head in Yarmouth lease on the commercial property market

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County Hall in Newport

LETTER Should County Hall be turned into housing and doctors' surgery?

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Root vegetables

GARDENING Which root veg can I harvest now for Christmas?

The garden team and volunteers: front, Adrian Wright, Janet Beasley, Reese Toogood; middle, Jordan Aspinall, Radu Rusu, Helen Piper, Philip Brown; back, Pauline Hunter, Corrine Mitchell, Pam Bilson, Nigel Brown, Karin Kadak, Toby Beasley

Staff and volunteers celebrate awards for Osborne's glorious walled garden

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A dream home for sale in Chale

photos Architect-designed home for sale for just under £2 million PHOTOS

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Traffic lights on Afton Road

LETTER Here's why temporary traffic lights sometimes look surplus to requirements

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This building in Ryde sold for over its guide price, at auction.

November property auction update but not everything sold

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Temporary traffic lights at Afton. But why?

LETTER Why all these temporary traffic lights when no works are going on?

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Fireworks are not universally liked

LETTER Make some noise over fireworks nuisance for sake of our vulnerable creatures

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Jake and Warren Oldenshaw in The Head Gardene

"Being around plants, in the open air, grows mental wellbeing"

A disabled toilet sign.

LETTER Could councils please give disabled toilets urgent attention?

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The Causeway in Freshwater

LETTER Plea for people to stop putting rat poison along The Causeway in Freshwater

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The Chine Inn, Shanklin, which is for sale via Arthur Wheelers estate agents.

Could this be your new business opportunity?

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Some of the exhibits at Bembridge Horticultural Show.

Blooming marvellous exhibits win at Brighstone Autumn Show

East Dene in Bonchurch

LETTER This commercial development 'threatens Bonchurch history'

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National Trust's Mottistone was among the places visited by the Radio 4 Gardeners' Question Time team.

How to listen to Gardeners' Question Time on the Isle of Wight TODAY

Red Funnel's latest plans for East Cowes.

LETTER Will my Red Funnel terminal concerns be addressed?

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St Mary's Hospital, Newport.

LETTER Why don't GPs tell us this important piece of information?

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An Isle of Wight protest called for action over sewage in our seas.

LETTER Who should be held to account for failures over sewage infrastructure?

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Shanklin clifftop.

LETTER Doesn't the council care about what our Island looks like?

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The sunflower lanyard.

LETTER Everyone needs to know about the sunflower lanyard and its purpose

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A home for sale in East Cowes, close to Waitrose and schools.

Detached family home for sale in East Cowes

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Trigg and Co is selling this Isle of Wight countryside home.

Cinema room and 360 degree countryside views at for sale in Chillerton

Isle of Wight Green Gym volunteers.

'I can see the benefits we’ve brought to the Island’s countryside'

Yarmouth Primary School on Mill Road.

LETTER Here's why we want Community Led Housing in Yarmouth

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Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely

LETTER "Here's my version of leadership" Isle of Wight MP responds to opinion column

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Letter to the editor from a frustrated mother

LETTER Frustrations of a mother chasing around for her little boy's prescription

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Christmas is coming to Busy Bee!

Find out when Busy Bee Christmas World launches (it's sooner than you think!)

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On the market with Fine and Country, this home on Freshwater's Court Road.

Peek inside £2 million house for sale offering grandeur in Freshwater

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Wightlink's Fishbourne to Portsmouth route.

LETTER Wightlink staff member kept cool head and dignified composure in face of abuse

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Newport Road on the edge of Northwood and, inset, the proposed development.

LETTER Out of control planning is turning villages into towns

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The toilets at Sandown beach, now 50p.

LETTER "I cannot believe it is 50p to use a toilet"

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Uncertain future for women suffering domestic abuse on the Island.

LETTER "The future has become altogether bleaker for women on the Island"

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Wild areas of St Helens Green.

LETTER Our plans and hopes to help preserve the second biggest village green in the country

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Toilets at New Road in Lake

LETTER Why are women's toilets in Lake now unisex instead of the men's toilets being fixed?

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Cheverton Holiday Park near Sandown is up for sale.

£7,250,000 investment would buy award-winning caravan park

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The road from Arreton leading up towards the Hare and Hounds pub.

LETTER From a visitor's view, this junction beggars belief and cyclists make it worse

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The White Lion pub in Arreton needs new tennants.

New tenants wanted for this popular pub at the Island's heart

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Part of St Helens Green has been left 'wild' for environmental reasons.

LETTER Unwanted long grass makes the village looks unsightly and attracts insects

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Window dressing at Hurst.

LETTER The imaginative window displays are a reason to support local and Try Hurst First!

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Ryde's new ticket office at the Interchange.

LETTER Please don't close the railway ticket office at Ryde

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Seahaven near Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight housing market, with Fine and Country.

PHOTOS Landmark property with private jetty and swimming pool

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Bembridge Horticultural Society's 102nd open show.

Huge effort from entrants into Bembridge Horticultural Society's 102nd show

Lucketts Farm in Bouldnor is on the Isle of Wight housing market.

PHOTOS Farmhouse living with lots of land for sale

Prices of Isle of Wight ferries are being questioned by a holidaymaker.

LETTER Fifty years of Isle of Wight holidays but why are the ferries so expensive?

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Isle of Wight ferries.

LETTER Future is dismal thanks to ferries (unless we get a fixed link)!

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Christmas decorations in Home Bargains, Newport.

LETTER Can't the shops wait until December to put out the Christmas decs?

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Morton Manor open gardens. Picture by Alice Chambers of the IW County Press Camera Club.

Your chance to look around Morton Manor's beautiful garden

Popular Island attraction needs your vote to win national competition!

Popular Island attraction needs your vote to win national competition!

Jonyth Hill with Ventnor Botanic Garden owner John Curtis.

Jonyth, 88, still volunteering at Ventnor Botanic Garden after 30 years

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Jenny Crates feeding the swans at The Causeway in January 2020. Picture by Becca Cameron.

LETTER Swans gradually returning to the scene of fatal dog attack

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A letter about the cost of ferries.

LETTER When will something be done about the high cost of ferry fares?

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