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A community picnic will be held in Newport next week to celebrate World Breastfeeding Week and highlight the importance of…

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More than 40 children, along with parents, grandparents and carers, gathered in Rylstone Gardens, Shanklin, for the annual CatURpillars Teddy…

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A late change of venue failed to dampen an enthusiastic crowd, as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra took to the stage…

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Cowes Primary School has now closed after more than a century of serving the local community. The school, which was…

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