Theatre tickets, World Book Day photos and exclusive stories in this week's paper
From nominating your favourite fish and chip shop to admiring the efforts of all the World Book Day characters, there's something for everyone.
Look out for our exclusive stories, court reports and features such as heritage, business, the Matt and Cat food review and spotlight on an interesting chef.
This week you will notice some changes to the internal layout of the County Press.
Read all about it here: County Press leading the way
We have decided to make space to fit even more news in, so we are taking news further back into the newspaper, right up to the popular eight-page puzzle pull-out.
That's 36 pages of news at the front of the newspaper alone.
Additionally, we have retained all the popular features and expanded some of them, in the pages after the puzzles.
Letters and opinion can now be found over three pages, with thanks to all those who contribute to make them a must-read section!
Just some of the places our reporters have been to get stories since last Thursday: Rockfall in Ventnor, Quay Arts, Department in Ryde, Hunnyhill Aquatics, White Hart Inn in Havenstreet, Red Lion in Freshwater, Shanklin Theatre to watch Wind in the Willows, Ventnor for the town crier's first outing, Magistrates' Court, Crown Court, County Hall, as well as here there and everywhere to cover breaking news from Coppins Bridge to Sandown seafront.
Find the County Press in shops across the Island, or subscribe to countypress.co.uk to read the digital flip-through edition.
The County Press is the biggest selling weekly newspaper in the country, and has been nominated for the Best Local Weekly Newspaper award in the prestigious Newspaper Awards .
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