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	Newport, Isle of Wight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Newport is the county town of the Isle of Wight, an island off the south coast of England.
		The town is situated slightly to the north of the centre of the island, at the head of the navigable section of the River Medina, which flows northward to the Solent, and on which the town has a quay.
		Newport's representation in Parliament was cut to one seat in 1867, and it was abolished altogether as a separate constituency in 1885.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Newport,_Isle_of_Wight (628 words)

	Isle of Wight (UK Parliament constituency) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Isle of Wight is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		The Isle of Wight forms a single constituency of the House of Commons, with an electorate of 108,253 (as of 2004).
		The constituency covers exactly the same land area as the ceremonial county of the Isle of Wight, and the area administered by the unitary authority, Isle of Wight Council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isle_of_Wight_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (601 words)

	Isle of Wight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Isle of Wight is a British island and county, off the southern English coast, to the south of the county of Hampshire.
		After the Roman era, the Isle of Wight was settled by the Jutes, a Germanic tribe, in the early stages of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
		As a constituency of the House of Commons it is traditionally a battleground between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats.
	www.sitetunnel.com /cgi-bin/nph-sitetunnel.cgi/001010A/http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight (3335 words)

	Isle of Wight - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Glanville Fritillary butterfly, in the United Kingdom is restricted to the edges of the crumbling cliffs of the Isle of Wight.
		The Isle of Wight became an island sometime after the end of the last Ice Age when the rising sea flooded the Solent, separating the island from the mainland.
		The Jutes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/archive/timeteamlive2001/feature_jutes.html)
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Isle_of_Wight (3792 words)

	Isle of Wight - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Isle of Wight is an English island, south of Southampton off the southern English coast.
		The Isle of Wight County Press [6] is the major local newspaper, published weekly each Friday or the last working day before a public holiday falls on that day.
		The Jutes in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Isle_of_Wight (3296 words)

	About
		The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is based at Havenstreet near Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
		Newport is the County Town of The Isle of Wight.
		The Isle of Wight was free of the disease throughout the recent outbreak in England.
	www.forelands.demon.co.uk /About.html (1003 words)

	isle of wight history and information
		According to the diaries of Sir John Oglander, the Governor of the Isle of Wight would donate 5 guineas for the purchase of the bull to be baited; the meat was afterwards donated to the poor of the town.
		Cowes is a seaport town on the Isle of Wight, an island due south of the major southern English port of Southampton.
		Ryde is an English seaside town and the largest urban area on the Isle of Wight, with a population of approximately 26,000.
	www.sunnycottcaravanpark.co.uk /isle_wight_information.htm (5539 words)

	Isle_of_Wight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Isle of Wight County Press [http://www.iwcp.co.uk/] is the major local newspaper, published weekly each Friday or the last working day before a public holiday falls on that day.
		There is also a local radio station, Isle of Wight Radio [http://www.iwradio.co.uk], broadcasting on 107 and 102 FM (also available over the internet), and a regional television station which broadcasts from the Island, Solent TV [http://www.solent.tv].
		The Isle of Wight is the setting of Julian Barnes's utopian novel ''England, England''.
	q-basic.xodox.de /Isle_of_Wight (3034 words)

	Newport - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Newport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Newport grew as a shipping centre, and served as a naval port until the 1970s.
		The city is the annual summer venue for a number of music events, including the long-established Newport Jazz Festival, and Ben and Jerry's Folk Festival.
		We skirted the northern shore of the island in fruitless search for man, and then at last landed upon an eastern point, where Newport should have stood, but where only weeds and great trees and tangled wild wood rioted, and not a single manmade thing was visible to the eye.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Newport (371 words)

	Post Office Network (Isle of Wight): 5 Nov 2003: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I was pleased to welcome him to my constituency last Friday and I am sure that he saw a little of it, although it was not at its best, given the weather.
		The chairman of the Isle of Wight County Federation of Women's Institutes, Joan Finch, told the Isle of Wight County Press that she feared the flow of business to the post office had been reduced due to people getting their pensions paid into their bank accounts or building societies.
		The great danger facing the Isle of Wight and elsewhere if nothing had been done was an unmanaged decline in the network, with urban post offices closing haphazardly and serious gaps in the service opening up.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /debates/?id=2003-11-05.904.0 (3864 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Isle of Wight (UK Parliament constituency)
		The Boundary Commission has considered the possibility of splitting the island into two constituencies (or possibly having a constituency crossing the Solent onto the mainland) but it was felt that the island would be better represented by a single MP.
		In the United Kingdom general election, 2001, the incumbent MP, Dr Peter Brand, a Liberal Democrat was beaten by Andrew Turner of the Conservatives, one of the few constituencies to be gained by the tories.
		The Reform Act abolished all these 6 parliamentary boroughs, and created a constituency for the whole of the Isle of Wight.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Isle_of_Wight_(UK_Parliament_constituency) (599 words)

	Andrew Turner - Isle of Wight MP
		Mr Andrew Turner (Isle of Wight): On 8 March, a drug smuggler was jailed for 26 years for leading an operation to bring a record £90 million consignment of cocaine into Britain by yacht.
		He and five of his accomplices were caught by 150 customs officers on the Isle of Wight after the smugglers' landing was hampered by storms at the end of a 3,000-mile voyage across the Atlantic from the Caribbean.
		Christoper Bland, wrote in the Isle of Wight County Press: "I have no doubt we should hang on to the presence"— that is of Customs and Excise— "on the Isle of Wight.
	www.islandmp.org /press/press20020723.asp (1149 words)

	Isle of Wight - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The 1970 show was notable for being the last public performance by Jimi Hendrix before his death and the number of attendees reaching, by many estimates 600,000[2] despite only 50,000 tickets being sold and overtaking the attendance at Woodstock in the previous year.
		The Isle of Wight County Press [5] is the major local newspaper, published weekly each Friday or the last working day before a public holiday falls on that day.
		There is also a local radio station, Isle of Wight Radio [6], broadcasting on 107 and 102 FM (also available over the internet), and a regional television station which broadcasts from the Island, Solent TV [7].
	isleofwight.quickseek.com (3193 words)

	Coastal Management, Isle of Wight Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This provided a focus for addressing the serious problems facing the Isle of Wight coastline in terms of coastal erosion and landslip, particularly in the context of potentially worsening situations arising from the predicted impacts of climate change; the Centre celebrates its tenth anniversary this year.
		Dr McInnes said: “The Isle of Wight was of course originally joined to the Dorset coast and one possibility is to open discussions with colleagues from Dorset and Devon County Councils to establish whether an extension of their site to include part of the Isle of Wight might be possible.
		The Isle of Wight Councils Centre for the Coastal Environment, based in Ventnor, was this week celebrating news of its second award of European funding within four weeks.
	www.coastalwight.gov.uk /pressreleases2.html (2387 words)

	ISLE OF WIGHT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Although the administrative capital and market town of the Isle of Wight is Newport, the town that is probably best-known internationally is Cowes, the home of so many sailing events, including the prestigious annual Skandia Life Cowes Week yachting festival and biennial Admiral’s Cup series.
		The Isle of Wight is the second smallest county in Britain (the smallest is Rutland), and it has been an independent county since 1890.
		The Isle of Wight offers two airports at Sandown and Bembridge, which are available for charter and private use.
	www.townfacts.co.uk /new_page_181.htm (943 words)

	Press Release - Full Press Release
		The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is paying the Isle of Wight Council to distribute three hundred copies of the guide to every MP in a coastal constituency as part of an awareness-raising programme.
		The Non-Technical Guide to Coastal Defence was commissioned from the Isle of Wight Centre for the Coastal Environment by the Standing Conference on Problems Associated with the Coastline (SCOPAC) which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year as the first Regional Coastal Group in England and Wales.
		SCOPAC has been chaired by officers from the Isle of Wight since its inception (David Court, former Deputy County Surveyor of the Isle of Wight County Council 1985-1995 and Dr Robin McInnes, Coastal Manager for the Isle of Wight Council since 1995).
	www.iwight.com /home/news/press_details.asp?relID=4292&frmOpt=2 (446 words)

	Health Spending: 7 Jul 2004: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		Friend, but the truth is that, whether in his constituency or across Wales, there has been a massive increase—a near doubling—of the Welsh health budget under Labour after years of Conservative cuts.
		If the Conservatives won the next general election, the result of their patients passport policy would be an immediate cut of £60 million in the Welsh health budget.
		Friend has been a consistent champion for his constituency, which is one of the poorest parts of Wales, and we obviously need even more improvement.
	www.theyworkforyou.com /debates?id=2004-07-07.824.7 (847 words)

	MP's and MEP Information for the Isle of Wight
		The Isle of Wight has the largest electorate of any constituency in the British parliament.
		Andrew Turner, a Conservative, was elected as the Island's Member of the House of Commons, the lower chamber of Parliament, in the general election of 8 June 2001.
		Following the June 2004 European elections, 10 MEPs were elected to represent the South East region, including the Isle of Wight, under a new proportional representation system.
	www.iwight.com /councillor/mep.aspx (113 words)

	Isle of Wight Conservatives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We aim to provide an effective campaigning organisation in the constituency in order to secure the return of Conservative Candidates at general and local elections and to raise the necessary funds to achieve this end.
		The Island is represented in Parliament by the Conservative MP Mr.
		Supporters of the Conservative Party are also invited to become members of the Isle of Wight Conservative Patrons' Club which is limited to sixty members.
	www.islandconservatives.co.uk (365 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 9 Apr 2003 (pt 28)
		It was also launched with the help of the leaders of the three political groups on Isle of Wight council: Island First, Labour and the Conservatives.
		The Petition of residents of the Isle of Wight and others declares that the Hampshire and Isle of Wight strategic health authority is suggesting the removal of accident and emergency services, some maternity services and other vital services from St. Mary's hospital, Newport to the mainland.
		The Petitioners therefore request that the House of Commons require the Secretary of State for Health to do all in his power to meet the health needs of the people of the Isle of Wight by ensuring that these essential services remain available on the island.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030409/debtext/30409-28.htm (2051 words)

	Biography
		He was known as a forensic member of committees and a champion of the interests of his constituency, supporting the vote of censure against Lord Palmerston in 1864 and declaring in favour of extensions to the suffrage concurrent with adequate education.
		In national politics he contested Newport in the Isle of Wight in 1857 and was elected for Southampton in 1862, where he was finally defeated in 1865.
		He did, however, argue for government retrenchment, shorter parliaments, civil and religious liberty, suffrage 'by instalments', the abolition of church rates, the lowering of the county franchise, the readjustment of local taxation and for master and man to be put on 'an equal footing'.
	www.london-city-history.org.uk /biography.htm (19310 words)

	Reform Act 1832 - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The applicable County or well recognised part of a County in 1832 (in the case of the Ridings of Yorkshire and the Isle of Wight, which was part of Hampshire) is given.
		The Isle of Wight, having had its three small boroughs disenfranchised, was given its first single MP for the whole area.
		The remaining burghs combined in districts to elect 18 MPs, much as before; but now individual votes were added up among burghs across the constituency — in the past the MP had been elected at a meeting of representatives from each burgh.
	greatreformactof1832.quickseek.com (1558 words)

	Conservative Party - Profile
		In 1997 he narrowly failed to win the Isle of Wight but in the June 2001 General Election he won the seat with a majority of nearly 3,000.
		He lives in Newport and is at home there at least three days a week when Parliament is sitting and of course during Parliamentary recesses.
		Although in the constituency with the largest electorate in the country he cannot possibly meet everyone, so he holds surgeries, weekly in Newport and around the Island on Saturdays and during the summer recess.
	www.conservatives.com /tile.do?def=people.person.page&PersonID=4847 (422 words)

	The Democratic Process
		Wight and Hampshire South European Constituency is made up of six 'Westminster' constituencies.
		Had the Socialists in the Parliament had their way the Accounts for 1996 would have been passed without question or investigation.
		The Conservatives in the European Parliament were involved in the initiatives to create the Court of Auditors, Budgetary Control Committee and the European Commission's Anti-Fraud Unit.
	www.royperry.connectfree.co.uk /whsdproc.htm (1200 words)

	North East Milton Keynes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		North East Milton Keynes is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
		The constituency is one of two covering the Milton Keynes borough.
		The new North East constituency was taken by Peter Butler of the Conservatives, who lost it to Labour's Brian White at the 1997 election.
	en.wikilib.org /wiki/North_East_Milton_Keynes (330 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| TALKING POINT \| Apathy - why was the election snubbed?
		People are fed up with the pointless one-upmanship which goes on during the election - in 2001, people aren't interested in the petty bickering of politicians - people lead much more complicated lives and they expect their government to have grown up too.
		Steve Smith, Dorset, UK Although some might think it ludicrous, at the age of 29, I still have not voted.
		In the past the public thought that the UK was a great country and anything that went wrong was the fault of the government.
	news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/talking_point/newsid_1369000/1369701.stm (5786 words)

	Vectis
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		Isle of Wight County Press - Jun 16 2:10 PM
		By Clare Wall A BUS came perilously close to plunging into the car park of Morrisons supermarket in Newport today (Friday) after a freak accident.
	www.paleorama.com /Lakes-V/Vectis.php (3430 words)

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