‘I can’t wait to be there with you’: Sir Tom Jones says it will be ‘magnificent’ to perform again as he joins Isle Of Wight 2021 festival lineup By Isla Williams For Mailonline Published: 02:12 GMT, 27 March 2021 | Updated: 02:12 GMT, 27 March 2021 Sir Tom Jones has said it will be ‘magnificent’ … Read more
The Isle of Wight Festival has been moved back by three months to September so it can still take place this year, after the planned end of coronavirus rules in June. The music festival had been due to take place from June 17 to 20 – but this would have been just before the Government … Read more
England’s Covid vaccine postcode lottery was laid bare today by figures that revealed towns on the Isle of Wight and in Devon have vaccinated nearly 20 times more people than an inner-city region of Sheffield. NHS statistics going up to February 21 show 90.3 per cent of all over-65s in England have had their first … Read more
Two fossil-hunting brothers have found a huge prehistoric bone that once belonged to either a straight-tusked elephant or the extinct mammoth. Joe Furguson, 28, and Luke Furguson, 30, found the 3 feet, 3 inch (1 metre) humerus bone near Brighstone Bay on the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight. The astonishing find – which was sticking … Read more
Isle of Wight locals are baffled by the arrival of a monolith as the art collective behind similar shiny statues popping up around the world said the south coast sculpture is not their responsibility. The three-sided metal object was found by beachgoers at Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight on Sunday. The Most Famous … Read more
A mysterious monolith has appeared on British shores just days after similar pillars were discovered and removed in America and Romania. The three-sided metal object was found by beachgoers at Compton Bay on the Isle of Wight earlier today. Several photos taken from different angles suggest the monolith is buried in the sand and gives … Read more
Jeremy Corbyn escapes Labour anti-Semitism fury – and London’s Tier 2 lockdown – with a weekend on the Tier 1 Isle of Wight with wife Laura Alvarez Maskless ex-opposition leader was pictured on the ferry to the island on Friday Came the day after he was suspended over anti-Semitism probe into Labour 71-year-old MP swapped … Read more
Police rush to oil tanker off Isle of Wight after ‘stowaways attempt to hijack ship’ headed to Southampton from Nigeria Police called after ‘security incident’ on Nave Andromeda off Isle of Wight today Restriction zone of five nautical miles now in place around vessel this afternoon The ship is reportedly Libyan-registered and was set to dock … Read more
The enslaved African princess who was Queen Victoria’s goddaughter: New painting of Sarah Forbes Bonetta goes on display at late monarch’s home on the Isle of Wight Portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta is displayed at Osborne House on Isle of Wight Sarah was an orphaned princess who became goddaughter to Queen Victoria She took the … Read more
Asylum processing centres could be built on the Isle of Wight, the Shetlands or the Isle of Man, it emerged yesterday. The new ‘offshoring’ proposal – which might also see asylum hostels built on other remote Scottish islands – is part of Priti Patel’s over-arching programme to crackdown on the Channel migrant crisis. Under a … Read more