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Yesterday’s local elections have produced big changes for Scilly’s Council, with the former Chairman Amanda Martin losing her seat and seven new councillors…
May 5, 2017Read More
Scilly’s Council has announced that it will close the islands’ only residential care home, Park House, in June, despite councilors expressing “no appetite”…
March 20, 2017Read More
Scilly’s Senior Officer For Community Services has said she will make the decision on the future of Park House, not elected members. Aisling…
March 17, 2017Read More
Councillors have rejected a plan to restructure Scilly’s Council, which would have seen most of the existing committees being abolished and replaced by…
March 15, 2017Read More
Scilly’s Tourist Information Centre will remain open for a further year thanks to a generous legacy left by a long-standing visitor to the…
March 11, 2017Read More
The Isles of Scilly will be the starting point this spring for an epic five-month charity walk to the Shetland Islands. 67-year old…
February 10, 2017Read More
Passenger helicopters will return to the skies of Scilly next year after Cornwall planners today voted unanimously to approve the application for a…
February 2, 2017Read More
Scilly’s Council has been issued with a formal notice to improve its financial controls and has been told it will need to borrow…
January 30, 2017Read More
Scilly’s Council could borrow up to £4m and raid cash kept aside for other services in order to fill a looming hole in…
January 12, 2017Read More
The inquest into the death of a Tresco Estate worker has been halted after a witness claimed he saw him having an altercation…
January 12, 2017Read More
At last week’s Full Council meeting, Scilly’s councillors found out that the authority’s General Reserve Fund, which it uses to cover unexpected expenditure…
December 13, 2016Read More
The Council of the Isles of Scilly is facing a financial crisis because it doesn’t know how much it is spending, what it…
December 13, 2016Read More
The governors of the Five Islands School have said they will resign. The school was given an ‘inadequate’ rating by Ofsted last month…
December 9, 2016Read More
The budget crisis facing Scilly’s council is deepening after its financial watchdog uncovered that their overspend last year was over ten times more…
December 7, 2016Read More