By Lucy Morgan Audience and Content Editor
Isle of Wight tourism businesses are finalists in Beautiful South Awards Isle of Wight businesses are in the running for this years’ Beautiful South Awards.
Away Resorts at Whitecliff Bay, English Heritage s Osborne and wild camping site Camp Wight are all named as finalists in the prestigious competition run by Tourism South East. They will face competition from heavy hitters from across the south, including Kent, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Hampshire. Visit Isle of Wight MD Will Myles has congratulated them, ahead of the award ceremony in March.
Whitecliff Bay is a finalist for Camping and Holiday Park of the Year
A postcard from the Isle of Wight, whose normalcy has never been so intoxicating
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Until I was nine, my familyâs annual holiday was spent somewhere different every year. Then we went to the Isle of Wight â and after that, we never went anywhere else.Â
Thereâs just something about the place. The fact you take a ferry across, perhaps, giving the feel of travelling overseas. Or the compact nature of it, the lack of motorways and vast cities. People joke that you must set your watch back 30 years on arrival, but it is the island that is laughing now, happily ensconced in Tier 1 and carrying on as close to a normal life as Iâve seen anywhere in months.
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Revealed: Winners Of Island Charity Sight For Wight Writing Competition
By Iona Stewart-Richardson
The winners have been revealed for Island charity Sight for Wight s short story writing competition.
This year more than £875 has been raised for the charity - which supports visually impaired Islanders and their families.
The Short Story Writing Competition Award Ceremony on Monday became a virtual event this year because of coronavirus.
As previously reported, winners will each have their story voiced by a celebrity.
With a live stream on Facebook and YouTube with over 500 viewers to find out if they were one of the lucky ten winners, the evening of entertainment included: Hannah The Vintage Songbird, Ben Stubbs, Kelly Burke and a poem written and narrated by volunteer Howard Thomas.