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New Isle Of Wight Traineeship Scheme For Next Generation Of Islanders
By Oliver Dyer
HTP Apprenticeship College is leading a new Government-funded traineeship programme on the Isle of Wight to get young people into work.
The scheme is part of a £111 million Government investment and aims to triple the scale of traineeships in the forthcoming year.
Isle of Wight businesses that agree to take on a person aged between 19 and 24 will receive a £1,000 payment (per person).
HTP will work with the employer to devise a bespoke learning programme for each trainee.
By PA News Agency
Ex-Chamber of Commerce president jailed for streaming child abuse A former Chamber of Commerce president has been jailed for 18 years for spending thousands of pounds on live-streaming “thoroughly deprived” sexual abuse of children as young as 10 in the Philippines. Peter Tomlinson, of Cowes, Isle of Wight, pleaded guilty at Newport Crown Court to 20 counts of child sexual abuse for which he paid a total of £10,000 during a four-year period. The court heard that the 63-year-old businessman and former president of the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce made 127 transactions to accounts in the Philippines between May 2015 and April 2017 to pay for the live-streamed abuse.
Peter Tomlinson, 63, of Cowes, Isle of Wight, pleaded guilty to 20 counts of child sexual abuse for which he paid a total of £10,000 during a four-year period.
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