Culture of the Isle of Wight Solent TV, which was the first not-for-profit community television station in the UK. It went into receivership in 2007. Residents of the Island tend to be community minded, and it is an oft-quoted statistic that 92% of islanders read the local newspaper 'the Isle of Wight County Press' , which is published most Fridays. In the early nineties a local radio station, Isle of Wight Radio , commenced broadcasting on 1242 medium wave, later moving to 107 and 102 FM. This is now also available via the internet, along with social media such as Island Pulse. Many events take place
Politics of the Isle of Wight Hampshire is the police service, which is joint between Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight forms a single constituency of the House of Commons, with an electorate of 110,697 (as of 2017). This is by far the largest electorate in the country. The 2018 proposals from the Boundary Commission for England will split the constituency into two. The constituency was traditionally a battleground between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Between 1974 and 1987, the seat was a Liberal seat, then becoming Conservative until 1997 when the Liberal Democrats won on a reduced Conservative vote. The