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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Here's how to win a PAIR of tickets to Isle of Wight Festival 2025
Fancy bagging yourself a pair of tickets to see the likes of Sting, Stereophonics and Justin Timberlake at Isle of Wight Festival 2025? Grab a copy of this week's County Press and you could be in with a chance! Clean Bandit, Supergrass, James, Example and many more will fill the weekend with some unforgettable moments. Sky presents The Isle of Wight Festival returns to Seaclose Park between June 19 and 22. Read more: Headine acts announced for Isle of Wight Festival 2025 Isle of Wight Festival bags new multi-year headline sponsor To be in with a chance of winning, grab a copy of this week's IW County Press and answer the question on page 2! Email your answer and your contact details to competition@ by midday on Thursday, May 22. The early Isle of Wight Festivals in 1968, 1969 and 1970 put the event on the map thanks to iconic performances from artists such as Bob Dylan, The Who and Jimi Hendrix. The event was successfully relaunched in 2002 to become a major festival in the UK calendar, and one of the most exciting weekends of the summer. For more information, visit T&Cs The prize package is for two weekend camping tickets to Sky presents The Isle of Wight Festival 2025 (Thursday 19 - Sunday 22 June 2025) The prize does not include travel or accommodation The tickets are issued subject to the festival's standard T&Cs, which can be found at The prize is non transferable, non refundable and non negotiable. There is no cash alternative See for Newsquest/IWCP Ts and Cs
Yahoo
21-03-2025
- Health
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Five years on, a look back at the Covid pandemic on the Island
As this month marks the fifth anniversary of the Covid pandemic, here's a timeline of what was happening on the Isle of Wight. According to figures from the Isle of Wight Council, 40,200 people on the Island contracted Covid during the pandemic between March 2020 and April 2022, while 421 died. The Island's first case was reported on March 4, 2020. Cases steadily rose on the Island, with a second confirmed on March 10, a third on March 20, a fourth on March 21 and a spike in cases with four more on March 22. IW NHS Trust staff during the pandemic. Read more: Island MP says Belgrave Road "back to square one" after Ventnor rockfall Letting your kids walk to school alone? This is the age the NSPCC says is old enough The pandemic saw the Island plunged into a national lockdown on March 23, 2020, as a busy summer of events turned into a batch of cancellations - The Isle of Wight Festival, Cowes Week and sports events all postponed. Islanders lined the streets every Thursday in lockdown to clap the NHS's tireless work. In May 2020, health minister Matt Hancock confirmed the NHS Track and Trace app was to be trialled on the Isle of Wight - eventually having a national rollout. The Isle of Wight's local democracy reporter Louise Hill, based at the County Press, appeared on television during a daily government briefing to ask the minister about data protection during the trial. Every Thursday, people clapped for the NHS In June 2020, while tough lockdown restrictions were still imposed, then Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely apologised after attending a barbecue and admitted to eating half a sausage. Restrictions eased in the summer of 2020, and the government launched the Eat Out to Help Out Scheme, before impositions tightened again with a lockdown in November 2020. The Covid vaccine arrived on the Island in December 2020 with pensioner Ken Killeen the first to receive a dose. Ken Killeen receiving his Covid vaccine The Isle of Wight was placed into 'Tier 1' restrictions in December 2020, the lowest level, before further restrictions were imposed on Boxing Day - allowing Islanders to spend Christmas with their loved ones. County Press reporter Jon Moreno was admitted to hospital with Covid over New Year following a positive test on Boxing Day, at one point losing all breath before making a full recovery. The Isle of Wight then moved from among the lowest number of Covid cases to the highest, as the UK was plunged into another national lockdown. Signs like this became the norm Schools closed to move to online learning and non-essential retail closed, as the nation received vaccines. Although restrictions gradually lifted throughout 2021 and we eased back to normal life, Islanders were left with the lasting impacts of Covid, many of which carry a legacy today.
