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606 January 2009 -
The Interim Managing Director of Red Funnel James Cooper; and the Chief Executive of Hovertravel Ian May, along with the firm’s Financial Director Peter White and Director Richard Box, are due to give evidence to the IW Council’s policy commission investigation into the cost of cross-Solent travel services.
505 January 2009 -
The administrators for the children's clothes retailer Adams have announced the closure of its High Street store in Newport. Staff will be among 850 people made redundant.
Year 4 students from Cowes Primary School with their ‘rot pot’ compost bins.
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Pupils at Cowes and Yarmouth Primary Schools have been learning about recycling, by turning rubbish into musical instruments and mini composters.
January 2009 Edition
By John Medland
The announcement that from December 1st the successful Town Managers scheme is being expanded to the whole of the Island is a reminder of how much has been achieved on the Island in terms of improving law and order. Congratulations are in order. Crime figures are down, truancy from school is down. In local police community surveys former concerns with drunken unruly behaviour is being replaced by traffic concerns.
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