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UK Spotlight: Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is situated just off the coast of Hampshire in the English Channel, it is the second most populous of the English isles with a population of just over 132,000 ‘Vectensians’ as they are known. The Isle has been a county in it’s own right since the turn of the 20th Century having previously been part of the county of Hampshire. The island is believed to have been separated from mainland Britain after the last ice-age thawed and as a result of the split and the subsequent periods, the island’s landscape is rocky and has several cliffs…

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