The community magazine for the Issue 32 June 2011

A flag waving welcome from the Isle of Wight NatWest Island Games 2011

Also inside: Major projects energise the Island’s economy WELCOME CONTENTS

The community magazine for the Isle of Wight June edition of One Island magazine Issue 32 June 2011 FIRST WORD Welcome to the June • The £260 million highway’s working to promote Island Council and community news issue of One Island private finance initiative. investment and jobs. 4 Walking festival round-up magazine. In this edition • The extensive scheme of And over the next week, we focus on a series of new buildings, extensions thousands of visitors linked 4 Bank holiday refuse collections 5 Warning for harbour divers A flag waving major council projects and improvements at to the NatWest Island welcome which are helping to Island school sites. Games 2011 will bring an 5 Medal success for Island youngsters from the energise the Island’s Isle of Wight We also take a look at exciting range of sporting 7 New conservation areas approved NatWest Island economy: action to the Island’s Games 2011 other significant projects • The 846-home Pan – particularly in the shores – as well as, of FEATURES Also inside: Major projects energise the Island’s economy Meadows housing renewable energy sector course, a welcome boost to 9 NatWest Island Games 2011 project. – where the council is the local economy. All set for major event 10 Creating a vibrant community USEFUL CONTACTS COUNCIL MEETINGS Spotlight on Pan Meadows project Advertising 12 School Report EMERGENCY All meetings are in public at County , County New-look schools take shape in One Island Hall, Newport PO30 1UD Hall. Call 823200 24 hours before a NUMBERS meeting to ensure it is going ahead. 14 Highways’ PFI project More than 43,000 copies of Fax: 823333 The facts behind the scheme In an emergency dial 999 Council One Island are distributed Email: 15 Driving the Island’s recovery throughout the Island for (council chamber) [email protected] Fire and rescue control 20 July (6pm) Building for the future each edition. Website: www.iwight.com centre (24hrs) 525121 21 September (6pm) The magazine is Out of hours: Cabinet published as an insert in TELEPHONE SERVICES Highways 823187 (committee room one) SUPPLEMENTS the Isle of Wight County Call centre: 821000 Waste 16 August (6pm) 16 The Island’s NHS Press – with additional 4 October (6pm) Monday to Friday: 8am to 6pm disposal 0800 3283851 Health service news copies available in libraries, Wightcare 533772/821105 page 13 Saturday: 9am to 1pm Planning Committee post offices, help centres, (out of hours) (council chamber) 17 COAST AND COUNTRY doctors’ surgeries and other We recommend you contact All other council 28 June (4pm) Rural and coastal news key locations. the call centre initially, where services 821105 2 August (4pm) we aim to answer as many If you would like to 30 August (4pm) page 4 page 10 18 TIME & PLACE enquiries as possible at this first FACE TO FACE 27 September (4pm) Events and activities TE CARD 2010 ADVERTISING RA advertise in point of contact. Audit Committee One Island, SERVICES Popular numbers (committee room one) please Newport Help Centre 29 June (6pm) Automated phone ONE contact us Tel: 821000 29 September (6pm) payments 0207 1381970 for more County Hall, Newport PO30 1UD Licensing and General Cover picture: Young Islander, Fern from ,

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2 One Island One Island 3 FIRST WORD Community news from around the Island New council chairman Prosecution message Don't jump into the unknown. Festival Councillor David Williams has been elected as the council’s goes from new chairman for 2011/2012. for harbour divers Councillor Williams, member for Central, replaces A strong message has gone out “Clearly the intention of this Councillor Ian Stephens, who has to anyone who dives into or bylaw and strict action is to completed his term of office. swims in Ryde Harbour – you protect people from injury. strength The council chairman is its civic will risk prosecution and a fine Jumping from a height of up to head and chairs meetings of the full of up to £1,000. to four metres off the harbour council. The position is non-political, The message is intended to wall into shallow water can have and as well as being responsible for the protect people from the dangers, serious consequences,” said the council’s civic affairs, the role includes including serious injury from council’s environment director, strength promoting public involvement in the jumping or diving (‘tombstoning’) Stuart Love. council’s activities. into the harbour. There is only two metres of CCTV cameras will spot anyone water in the harbour at high tide who defies a bylaw which has and at other times under a metre banned swimming and linked of seawater or less. There is chalk Got a barcode scanner on your Decision day activities in the harbour since and rock in some places beneath phone? for waste and recycling 2000. the water. There are clear warning The height of summer is the collection changes signs around the harbour and worst time for ‘tombstoning’, often the council has the power to when teenage schoolchildren are prosecute those who defy the on their summer holidays. bylaw. A PA system at the harbour Parents are being reminded of is also used to provide warnings. the dangers to their children, and 999 COASTGUARD The council will work with the the warning message is also being police to identify any offenders. sent out to schools. www.mcga.gov.uk

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Young Where a University Degree in Business is Thousands of people took to the Island’s footpaths and Islanders not beyond your reach byways last month, once again ensuring the 16-day Isle of More than 800 responses a meeting of the council’s Wight Walking Festival was a big success. were received to cabinet to consider the celebrate This year saw the 13th staging the recent public options for changes to the Our part-time Business of the award-winning annual Don’t miss consultation on changing service. & Management Degree festival, the biggest event of its the Island’s waste Details of the cabinet’s medal is designed for busy kind in the UK. autumn collection service to decision and the plan for Pictured: Carla Roberts proudly working people and is The festival featured more boost recycling. implementation of any wears the bronze medal she available once a week walking won in the girls’ 1500 metres than 300 walks across a whole The responses were changes will be available on success from Isle of Wight College and range of themes, from the epic weekend collated for presentation to the iwight.com website. Sixteen young athletes Taylor Canning (silver) in the the University of . 72-mile coastal path walk to the from the Isle of Wight girls’ 4 x 100 metres relay; popular speed-dating walk. For all keen walkers there August bank holiday refuse collection returned with four medals • Tom Newnham (silver) in the One walker from Canterbury, from a successful trip to 3000 metres; It is open to those who may is more to come – as this Refuse normally Will be Remember that the not have formal qualifications who emailed the council to October will see the fourth recycling box is a fortnightly the annual World Island • Polly Hopper (bronze) in the thank it for organising the collected on collected on Youth Games in Sicily. girls’ 200 metres. www.port.ac.uk/pbs but whose work experience annual autumn walking collection and must be will have prepared them festival, said she and her Mon 29 August Tues 30 August All four medals came from weekend on the Island. kerbside by 7am. If you are not to succeed. husband walked for 14 of the 16 The walking weekend Tues 30 August Wed 31 August sure of your week of collection the athletics team, although Team manager, Lee Matthews, days, clocking up 150 miles. several personal bests were said: “This year’s field was takes place from 21 to Wed 31 August Thur 1 September please use any of the contact also set by members of the very tough, especially as our “All the leaders of the 24 October, with the full details given below: Thur 1 September Fri 2 September swimming team. team were missing several For further information visit walks were informative and programme of walks • Isle of Wight Council, The medal winners were: older athletes due to clashes experienced. The walks took us available from August. Fri 2 September Sat 3 September tel: 823777, website: W port.ac.uk/busandman with exams. This means that through lovely countryside with The week starting Monday www.iwight.com/waste wide views of the mainland, • Carla Roberts (bronze) in the winning four medals is even E [email protected] • You can view the walks 29 August is B week for • Island Waste Services, and the ocean. The girls’ 1500 metres; more impressive and puts the online at www.isleofwight recycling. Recycling collections tel: 821234, website: T 023 9284 8200 weather was fantastic. We will • Annabelle Marsh, Polly team in good stead for future walkingfestival.co.uk will also be one day late. www.islandwaste.co.uk be back next year!” Hopper, Holly Newton and years.” 4 One Island One Island 5 ADVERTISEMENT

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Island teenagers and areas their parents are being The extension of conservation with the Island Insulation Scheme reminded of the special areas for Ryde, Ryde St advice and help available John’s, Shanklin, Sandown for youngsters who and has been Householders aged may be experiencing approved by the council. over 70 or in receipt Loft and cavity wall an abusive teenage The adoption of the documents can be new road across the estate; and of eligible bene ts relationship. amended areas follows a public insulation can save you viewed online at Mount Cottages, built in 1904 in Data from the British consultation exercise in January. www.iwight.com/conservation the Barton Estate style, possibly * as much as £340 per Crime Survey has shown Conservation areas have to an earlier design by Prince Free! year1 on fuel and is the that girls aged 16 to 19 are enhanced planning controls Albert. now the group most at risk to help sustain the distinctive Key sites added The review panel also most e ective means of of domestic abuse. character of an area. to Local List approved Woody Bay Abuse in teenage As part of the amended A number of key sites have been reducing heating costs. coastguard cottages and the old Householders aged relationships is not always arrangements, the council added to the Island’s Local List cottages in Coastguard Lane, about physical violence has agreed to the removal of 60 to 69 from – which seeks to protect local Freshwater. 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Households with a These included: Six Cottages, how to get support, are This will help the council to For more information resident child aged Road, available from a range of guide changes in these sensitive and to download a 18 and under from organisations and websites. cases. (pictured above) – built in 1859 nomination form, please visit * These include: The newly adopted following the construction of a www.iwight.com/locallist £99 • thisisabuse.direct.gov.uk; contact children’s social care • www.thehideout.org.uk; Worried about a child? on 525790 (working hours) • and a national charity that Most children enjoy happy sometimes difficult to know or 821105 (outside working works with and for parents, childhood experiences what to do for the best or where hours). If you think a child is in All other households www.parentlineplus.org.uk within their own family, but to go for help. Rather than do immediate danger you can also prices from unfortunately for some this is nothing, it is important people contact the police using 999. You can also visit not always the case. report their genuine concerns. For more information * www.saferwight.org.uk for If you are concerned about If you are worried a child is you can visit £150 more information. a child or young person it’s being harmed or is at risk, please www.iwight.com/safeguarding A new campaign is taking place on the Island to Campaign improve the early awareness and diagnosis of Symptoms bowel cancer. The symptoms of bowel (colorectal) cancer *Prices may vary depending on size of property and other factors. 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All set for NatWest Island G a m e s 2011 The time has arrived! More than 3,000 athletes and officials from 25 islands are on the Isle of Wight for the NatWest Island Games 2011. Here we look at the key events and highlights for the week ahead t is one of the biggest sporting weeks the Isle of Wight has ever experienced. From Saturday 25 June Ito Friday 1 July venues across the Island will be playing host to competitors and supporters for one of the largest multi-sport events outside the Olympics and Commonwealth Games. Don’t miss the Memorable The International Island Games were established in opening ceremony the Isle of Man in 1985 and today include 25 member medals From shore to shore, islands in, or associated with, the nine sovereign The spectacular opening ceremony Isle of Wight Studio Glass Ltd nations of Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, parade will wind its way through at St Lawrence has crafted the the streets of Ryde from 5pm on Norway, Spain, Sweden, UK plus the Caribbean. 1,555 gold, silver and bronze The list of sports taking place during the games will Saturday 25 June. medals (pictured above) for be: archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, cycling, The choreographed procession the games, together with 265 you’ll find our stores. football, golf, sailing (including windsurfing), shooting, will feature 1,500 young people squash, swimming, table tennis, tennis and volleyball. performing historic and folkloric commemorative medals for The games are being run by the Island Games episodes from the history of the officials. Avenue, EAST COWES Association (Isle of Wight), supported by the council, Isle of Wight, accompanied by the which is also a sponsor. Other supporters include: games’ athletes. reaching the Esplanade at 7pm.

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n the outskirts of specification – in an innovative Newport the pioneering way into the existing Pan A helping of OPan Meadows housing community. project has been visibly rising More than 250 of the homes from the ground. will be affordable, and all will community Creating a The aim of the council and be let using a local lettings its partners, Spectrum Housing plan giving priority to Island spirit – and Group and Barratt David Wilson residents. (Southampton), is to create a The units in the project will Island jobs vibrant residential community vary in size from a 130-square while generating social, metre four-bedroom, double vibrant environmental and economic balconied detached family benefits. home to a 50-square metre At the heart of the apartment. Thirty per cent of community development is a sense of the units will be affordable community partnership housing. working – one of the All the new homes will underlying principles of the Pan receive their heat and hot water The first 12 homes on the major Pan Meadows Neighbourhood Partnership. from a central biomass plant – a The partnership, through its striking building, part of which housing project at Newport are set to be Above: Pan community warden Kim Roscoe brings a smile to the Isobel Centre various projects has been will be underground with a roof café Below: Isobel Park provides a place for recreation and play for the whole occupied by the end of this month. Here we energising the existing Pan topped in grass. community take a look at progress with one of the biggest community in readiness for the Director of community All new residents will be able to benefit from the extensive many new residents. wellbeing and social care, Ian planning and preparatory work that has gone in to creating an housing developments the Island has ever seen The Pan Meadows Anderson, said: “It will be a real attractive enhanced community. development will see the landmark moment to see the A ten hectare country park forming part of the development creation of 846 new homes, first 12 new homes occupied. Of will soon be opening, together with many other features to and the project brief for these, ten will be for affordable enhance surroundings for the expanded community. Seven homebuilder Barratt Homes is housing tenants and two for thousand trees have already been planted in the country park. about integrating the homes – private sale. The next 19 homes A concerted effort has also been made to use local businesses each to a high design standard after that will be ready for and local people for the project. So far 30 Island suppliers have and environment-friendly occupation by the end of July.” been used and 118 Island residents are actively employed on the Pictured: The show homes at Pan site – and Barratt Homes has provided the opportunity for 12 Meadows are ready to view young people from the Island to take apprenticeships or national vocational qualifications in a range of skills. Commissioning manager for the council, Peter Hopkins, said: “The Pan Management Company has been formed to manage the Pan Meadows site – with a commitment to ensure the development is integrated fully into the existing community, to manage and maintain the environment, and ensure it is a safe and clean place to live.” Vital to the Pan Meadows project has been the work of the Pan Neighbourhood Project over recent years. Among the features to create a community attractive and engaging for new and existing residents is Isobel Park – a recreational and play area for the community, with robust and extensive play equipment for children. The park also features a floodlit, all weather multi-use games area – opened in 2008, and hugely popular with local residents. And at the heart of the park is the Isobel Centre – a community centre run by the Pan Together community group and featuring a café, internet facilities and meeting/function Moving to Pan Meadows areas. Please use the contacts below if you are interested in moving to Pan Meadows: • Private purchasers – visit www.barratthomes.co.uk or the on site Barratt Homes Sales Centre at Pan Meadows. • Shared ownership – call Spectrum’s home ownership team on 0800 3163316. • Affordable housing tenants – visit www.islandhomefinder.org.uk 10 One Island One Island 11 SCHOOL REPORT Pictured: Work is new primary and secondary school system. complex and exciting project underway on a two- Funding for the project is being provided that will create school classroom extension centrally by the Department for Education. sites suitable to serve our Reaching for the sky for New-look Primary School The latest major developments include: schoolchildren for generations • planning approval for £6 million new to come. build projects for Primary at “At the same time we schools start to have endeavoured to create Ryde (on the Swanmore playing field site) and St Francis Primary at Ventnor (on the contractor packages serving take shape Ventnor Middle site), with work due to the project that promote start in July; the importance of Island • work underway for a two classroom investment and Island extension at Nettlestone Primary, due for construction industry jobs. completion by September for the start of “The overall schools’ capital the new school year; Primary), Kitbridge Middle programme has a target of • work due to start, subject to planning (Hunnyhill Primary), and Lake 25 per cent of the work being consent, to convert the gymnasium at Middle (Broadlea Primary) – carried out by Island-based Nodehill Middle into two new science all due to be completed by businesses, and our intention is laboratories for the new joint sixth Easter 2012; to increase this. In fact, the first The new £30 million state of the art secondary school for form earmarked for the site, serving • the installation of mobile two batches of works packages Cowes has been visibly rising from the ground in recent classrooms at a range of and Medina secondary include 100 per cent Island- months. primary sites, to cater for schools; based contractors.” Groundworks for the Cowes One School Pathfinder project expanding school numbers – Many school buildings and sites across and forward-looking construction project refurbishment at middle school sites To help and encourage (on the existing Cowes High site) have been completed, the • including , Carisbrooke the Island are set to be transformed ever undertaken in the education sector on which are to close and become primary smaller Island building firms to steel framework erected, and cladding work begun. and Northwood – in time for over the coming months as new-build, the Island. schools, including Solent Middle (Gurnard become involved in the range The council’s partner for the project, Pihl (UK) Ltd, has been the September 2011 year. extension and refurbishment work for The council is working closely with Primary), Somerton Middle (Love Lane of projects, a second ‘bidders’ pushing ahead with the project, with the new school building the Island’s new two-tier system gets its framework partner, Willmott Dixon Primary), Osborne Middle (Queensgate Project director for the day’ featuring workshops on due to open for the 2012 academic year. fully underway. Construction, on the project, which will Primary), Mayfield Middle (Greenmount council, Janet Newton, said: the complexities of completing The new school is set to provide a modern learning The work forms part of the most intensive create school sites fit to serve the Island’s Primary), Forelands Middle (Bembridge “This is a wide-ranging, tenders, is due to be staged. environment with extensive facilities, as well as an asset for the whole local community. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT School changes timetable August WestQuay, Boat Show and Rock ‘n’ Roll All middle and high schools other than Christ the King, Cowes to Southampton return from only £7.80.* Newport will formally close. Summer is a great time to visit Southampton. You can check out big-name stores Southampton Events this Summer. September like Hollister, Apple or John Lewis at WestQuay, bag yourself a bargain at IKEA, Southampton Mela Festival, 16 July. 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long with other local research and development Driving authorities up and facility in Stag Lane, Newport, Adown the country, working closely with the the Isle of Wight Council has company on various aspects of been experiencing first hand the project. The facility is due the reality of running services to officially open later this year, the for residents on a far tighter providing jobs for 260 people. budget. Major But, within its range of duties, Solar energy project the council has remained Help has been given to Kronos determined to take positive Solar with its development of a Island’s steps to continue to support highways’ project and promote the local five megawatt solar park near recovery economy. These range from , due to be officially the £260 million highways’ opened in July. The site, on low private finance initiative (PFI), quality agricultural land, will forges ahead to ensuring the Island is well feed directly into the National positioned to benefit from the Grid, and provide enough next generation of superfast power for 4,500 people. broadband. Council strategic director for Offshore wind park the economy and environment, The council has been working Here we put the Island’s £260 million highways’ Stuart Love, said: “We are with Eneco, the firm appointed private investment initiative (PFI) under the spotlight – involved in a wide range of by the Crown Estate to develop and set out the facts behind this important scheme... projects as part of our a major offshore wind farm responsibility to the eight miles off the west coast of Island’s economy, the Island. It is planned the wind farm will eventually generate he preparations for the Island’s highways PFI project – a team – and following an appraisal process, one of the three scheme that will see unprecedented investment to bring bidders could be deselected. enough power for 615,000 to particularly 820,000 homes. Tour road network up to standard – are continuing to The complex selection procedure, set down by government, focusing on the vision of schedule. will culminate in the announcement of a preferred partner at the encouraging economic growth Three companies (or consortiums) have successfully submitted end of the 2012 – with work due to start early the following year. while promoting the green Broadband UK proposals for how they would undertake the work in the PFI – As well as upgrading the Island’s road and pavement network, agenda. An expression of interest has which will be the largest engineering project ever undertaken on the PFI will include all street cleansing, street lighting and street The Isle of Wight Council “We have a supportive and been submitted by the council the Island. furniture (including road signs), CCTV systems and also roadside has been playing a key guiding role behind many of to Broadband UK, as a first The submitted plans will now be studied by the council’s PFI verge maintenance. stage towards opening up the role in promoting the local these projects, working with major companies on large scale Island to the next generation of economy as it emerges initiatives, and also enhancing superfast broadband. Highways’ PFI – the facts from testing times. Here links on behalf of local industry we look at some of the and commerce.” Strengthening local In the build up to the scheme, the council the services currently provided by the PFI partner will have to prove they are major projects it has been business links is keen to clarify the range of benefits and council, that will in future be included offering best value for money. There will Highways’ PFI A successful business breakfast opportunities for local business. in the contract. This money is broadly be scope within the contract to alter the supporting – particularly in The council has been working was staged at Cowes Yacht Three recent public meetings were held what is already spent on the services. terms to reflect unexpected changes in the renewable energy sector to ensure the Island has a skilled Haven in May, attended by as part of this, as well as a live question However, because this contribution will the market or economy. workforce ready to respond to 65 representatives of Island and answer session via the council’s support a brand new single contract, the • The PFI project is the only way the the requirements of the major business – with a view to Facebook page. council will get better value for money council could ever attract the vast highways’ PFI project (see feature forging stronger links with There are a number of points the from this spend. The current value of amount of money required to carry out on opposite page). The winning the Solent Local Enterprise council is keen to get across, as there this contribution is around £8.3 million such a comprehensive improvement of bidder will be expected to Partnership. The council has remain misconceptions about the project: (though the council is seeking to reduce the highways’ network. We are have a low carbon footprint – been actively involved with the amount as part of the negotiations • While the amount of money initially which will put local companies, encouraging the creation of the partnership, • The money given by the government for with potential partners), and it will be earmarked for the Island was reduced by “ services and labour in prime along with colleagues in the the highways’ PFI project is £260 million linked to inflation. the government from £360 million, the economic position to get involved. Southampton and Portsmouth at today’s prices – but its value will be • The contract period is for 25 years. amount available will still enable every growth while areas. The event was organised far in excess of that by the end of the Because it covers such a long period, stretch of public highway currently in promoting the Vestas research and by the council and promoted 25 year PFI programme. This money is a the council is making sure the deal use to be upgraded and maintained for development by the Isle of Wight Chamber government grant – it does not have to represents best value for money and 25 years. Each stretch of highway will be green agenda The council has been involved of Commerce and Industry be repaid. also brings the maximum benefit to the treated at least once during the 25 years Economy and environment in the planning processes for and the Federation of Small • The council will also make an annual local economy. of the scheme, and the busier the road, ” director, Stuart Love the building of the new Vestas Businesses. payment to the PFI contractor to cover • Throughout the contract, the selected the higher the specification of the work.

14 One Island One Island 15 PARTNER SUPPLEMENT Our Island, COAST & COUNTRY our environment Channel 4 doctor speaks New ambulances take at Island conference to Island roads Shipwreck shenanigans!and

Pictured (left to right): Ambulance operations manager Keith Morey and transport manager Graham Warren receive the new ambulance keys from chief operating officer Karen Baker Four new emergency ambulance service, said: ambulances have been “Staff throughout the service Pictured (left to right): Dr Patrick Wills, public health commissioning manager handed over to the Island’s have been working very hard Sarah Stringer, Channel 4’s Dr Radha Modgil and consultant nurse Felicity Young top-performing ambulance and are very committed and n historic link with Bermuda, one of the Isle of service. Emergency dedicated to patient care. It’s Wight’s fellow competing islands in this month’s More than 70 health and social care professionals working on Seen from the Island’s high points, like St Catherine’s Down or the ambulances travel about important that we have high NatWest Island Games, has been recalled by the the Island attended the Island’s 2011 Annual Sexual Health A Wroxall Horseshoe, the colours of the Island’s countryside patchwork 40,000 miles a year and are performance emergency County Record Office at Newport. Conference. They were joined by Dr Radha Modgil from quilt are changing. Gone are the spring’s fresh lime greens, set against kept in service on the Island ambulances to enable our In April 1862 a boat, the Cedrine, sailing from Channel 4’s The Sex Education Show who spoke about the show the rich brown shades of the soil. By midsummer, the woodlands have for about five years. The new staff to deliver the excellent Bermuda to Portsmouth was wrecked on and the importance of sex education. taken on deeper green hues and crops are ripening to straw yellow, with ambulances, which cost response times Islanders have Ledge – the captain having mistaken the Island for low Island GP and sexual health specialist, Dr Patrick Wills, said: occasional bright red splashes of poppies making a startling contrast. £158,000 each, are Mercedes- enjoyed in recent years. These cloud. “This annual event is an important opportunity for everyone The corners and broad headlands of arable fields benefit wildlife Benz Sprinter 519CDI vehicles four new ambulances are All 234 people on board, including 191 ex-convicts involved in providing sexual health services on the Island to greatly. Wild flowers attract nectar-feeding insects, including bumble with an ambulance conversion. welcome additions to our fleet returning from a short sentence of transportation to improve their understanding of current issues and share good bees and hoverflies. Their eggs develop into larvae which feed on Chris Smith, head of the of vehicles.” Bermuda, were rescued – with locals including vicar, practice.“ aphids and other crop pests. Birds like grey partridges, linnets and the Rev Pellew Gaze, commended for gallantry. yellowhammers benefit from the rich variety of insects to feed their Unfortunately, the records show that many of the former convicts celebrated their rescue with rather chicks. Voles and other small mammals thrive, and in turn their too much enthusiasm in the two public houses in presence makes the headlands ideal hunting habitat for barn owls and Brighstone village. As a result there were skirmishes kestrels. Many rare plants are now confined to the edges of arable fields, their seed lying dormant for many years before ploughing brings it nearer the surface where it can germinate. Corn marigolds (pictured above) and cornflowers are easily seen but a closer look is needed to find weasel snout, corn chamomile, and sharp-leaved fluellen. A rare Island speciality, field cow-wheat, has flamboyant purple and yellow flowers. In former times this plant was called ‘poverty weed’ and people were employed to pull it up from cereal fields because its seed contaminated flour and made it taste bitter. Nowadays, it is confined to a few sites on the Undercliff, well way from food crops. Anne Marston, assistant ecology officer Seasonal guide to wildlife in your garden Pictured: The Five Bells Inn It’s the time of year to enjoy sitting out in the garden in the village street – (top) and the New Inn at Brighstone (above), the two inns to view the wildlife it attracts. Butterflies and moths and troops stationed at involved in the disturbance are on the wing and are attracted to nectar-rich plants Parkhurst were sent across Below: An illustration depicting such as marjoram, lavender (pictured) and buddleia. Church the Island to restore order. The Big Butterfly Count is coming up from 16 to 31 July Bermuda was famous – see www.bigbutterflycount.org for details of how to for its cedar timber. The join in. Cedrine was a new boat Birds, meanwhile, are busy feeding their rapidly made from the wood, and growing young on aphids, caterpillars and other insect some of its timbers were pest larvae collected from garden plants, so it’s best to used in restoration work avoid spraying them at the moment. The adult birds carried out at Mottistone will appreciate a supply of fresh water in hot weather. Church at the time. 16 One Island One Island 17 www.iow.nhs.uk TIME & PLACE 24 June to 14 October ACTIVITIES Open Evening 10am to 3.30pm, entry children’s games, enthusiasts, live music, Newchurch Male THEATRE (29 June, 23 August) free. books, at MUSIC VW competitions, Voice Choir Concert Hear to Meet Walk Find out about courses Hall, 2pm to 4pm, St Alban’s Day driveout throughout (13 October) Earth, Fire and (26 June) for school-leavers EXHIBITIONS entry £1 to include Patronal Festival the Island, guided Evening of singing Water – Legends of tea/coffee and biscuits, walks, tree-climbing, The Royal National starting in September, (26 June) with guest soloists, the Island and part-time courses Fire and Fantasy proceeds to church many displays, at the Institute for Deaf Guest preacher George Street Centre, (1-2 July) for adults, Isle of Wight (7-19 July) The 175th buildings and the County Showground, People, three-mile Mother Rita Elizabeth Bonchurch Theatre College and F6rm, Exhibition of anniversary of Ghana boxes. 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