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Isle of Wight hospital to get emergency supplies via DRONE from British mainland as Transport Secretary Grant Shapps reveals an £8million trial programme has been brought forward to next week The flights will link the Solent ports and St Mary’s Hospital near Newport The drone flights across the Solent shipping channel will begin next week … Read more
Jersey will become the first place in British Isles to enforce ban on smacking children when it outlaws ‘all forms of corporal punishment’ tomorrow Jersey is will become the first Channel Island to ban all corporal punishment The amendment was passed by 39 votes to four and will be enforced tomorrow Jersey’s children’s minister and … Read more
Nine people – including a nurse – have died in 10 days at a Dundee care home at the centre of negligence allegations. Pitkerro Care Centre confirmed the fatalities after a former care worker revealed she had resigned in ‘disgust’ at the conditions she was forced to work under. She has reported Pitkerro to the … Read more
Eight walkers dramatically cut off by huge cliff collapse on Isle of Wight but escape unhurt Police said to avoid Shanklin beach after the rock fall around 4.40pm on Saturday Two groups of people were walking in the area but no one was injured It was the second major cliff fall within a few weeks … Read more
My hotel room in Stornoway, capital of the island of Lewis and Harris, was the tweediest place on the planet. The chairs were upholstered in cream Harris Tweed. My blanket was in a heather-purple shade of Harris Tweed. I added to the effect by buying a sponge bag — in tartan Harris Tweed. I bought … Read more
Want to get PAID for getting away from it all? Couple is being sought to manage a property on a remote Scottish island for six months Couple wanted to manage a property on the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides The role comes with A £1,200 per month salary and free accommodation Runs from … Read more
Best of Britain: BBC Countryfile Awards 2020 names Northumberland as No1 national park, Isle of Wight as the top holiday destination and Wales’ Freshwater West as the finest beach Readers of Countryfile Magazine were asked to vote for their favourite UK spots and 17,000 votes were cast Poison Garden at Alnwick Garden and Northumberlandia, a … Read more
Great British Boltholes: Fine food and relaxed luxury near the waterfront… North House in Cowes is a Wight winner! North House is the first boutique hotel in Cowes – it offers ‘relaxed luxury’ It is a 19th Century townhouse and theatre that have been knocked together There are 14 bedrooms and a restaurant rated one … Read more
The Isle of Islay is closer to the ‘island of Ireland’ (as politicians call it when squabbling over the EU ‘backstop’) than it is to Scotland’s big cities. Out there, in other words. And yet for a first-timer it seems like a microcosm of Scotland as a whole, with its mountains, heathered moorland, grazing sheep, … Read more