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Road Closure Through Brading
By Jamie White
New Road has been shut from the Yarbridge Cross junction for emergency gas repair works.
Drivers are being diverted over The Downs - or via Yaverland and Bembridge.
However, Isle of Wight Radio listeners are reporting areas of black ice on The Downs.
Southern Vectis bus routes 2 and 3 are also being diverted.
Yarbridge Cross has been closed for emergency works As a result, routes 2 and 3 are currently unable to serve Brading, Morton Common or The Avenue in Sandown. Buses will instead operate via Yaverland, Bembridge and St Helens.
Yarbridge Cross is closed. Island Roads said tt was to allow Southern Gas to attend and repair a gas leak on the junction of New Road, Marshcombe Shute, Morton Road and Hornsey Rise. South Western Railway is running replacement buses due to the closure of Island Line. It said: Buses are unable to call at Brading on the Island Line today due to emergency road works. We are very sorry for any disruption this may cause to your journey. The service is diverted via Bembridge and St. Helens until the work is complete. Yarbridge Cross has been closed for emergency works
A THINKING skills programme is to be undergone by a 19-year-old with a long list of criminal convictions. Harrison Radcliffe, of Blackwater Road, Newport, admitted assault by beating when he pushed a teenager on to train tracks at Shanklin and dangerous driving, at the Isle of Wight Crown Court on Friday. For his latest offences he had already spent 72 days in custody before being bailed on an electronically monitored curfew to await the sentencing hearing. The court heard he had a range of previous convictions for offences including violence, assault, possession of a bladed article, and aggravated vehicle taking. Judge Roger Hetherington concluded that the assault, when he pushed a 15-year-old on to train tracks, was an ongoing feud probably to do with drugs .
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Eastern Yar Flood Warnings Being Reduced This Morning
By John Warburton
The Environment Agency is lowering the severity of several Isle of Wight flood warnings today, December 28.
Their information concerns not only the Eastern Yar but also land surrounding its tributaries from Whitwell to Bembridge.
The agency said this morning that, at Alverstone, the water level in the Eastern Yar is slowly falling.
But at Sandown its staff believe the levels will rise until lunchtime today.
Flooding of land, footpaths, cycle tracks and the access track to Horringford is expected to continue.
Water levels are high and rising in the area. A total of 25mm of rain has fallen at Wroxall, most of which has fallen in the last 12 hours. From 2pm, the river will be very high at Langbridge and Alverstone, flooding low lying land, footpaths and cycle tracks. At Alverstone, the river will not peak until midnight, by which time it will affect access to Horringford and overtop the river bank near Station House. It will come very near to flooding property. At Sandown, the river will not peak until midday tomorrow (Monday). By early morning, flooding of Golf Links and Moreton Common road is expected.