By Lucy Morgan Audience and Content Editor
Wessex Cancer Trust s Isle of Wight Daisy Bus at the Hovertravel terminal The Wessex Cancer Trust s Daisy Buses are still running for Isle of Wight cancer patients travelling to the mainland for treatment, as the Island gets used to the new Tier Four rules. The service picks patients up from the ferry terminals and transfers them to Southampton General Hospital and Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. Throughout the pandemic, it has continued to support those heading across the Solent for vital care, unwavering despite all the coronavirus pandemic has thrown at it.
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ISLE of Wight chef, Paul Thorley, has raised more than £6,000 for the Wessex Cancer Trust, selling Christmas meal boxes using locally sourced ingredients. As an alternative to the usual Christmas work do, Island businesses have been treating their staff to Paul s packaged three-course meals instead. I ve been doing these boxes since the first lockdown and they ve been really successful, said Paul, of Yummy Boxes. The idea originally was to have a black-tie, fine dining event as a fundraiser, but obviously we couldn t do that, so I did meal boxes instead. I normally do 40 or 50 a time, but the minute I launched it, Wight Fire and Security bought 46, and another company wanted 42.
Ray and his wife Louise have found support from Wessex Cancer Trust for the past 12 months WESSEX Cancer Trust, a regional charity which supports thousands of Islanders affected by cancer, has launched Ray’s Appeal its Christmas fundraising appeal for 2020. Ray, 49, who lives with his wife and two children in Eastleigh, was supported by Wessex Cancer Trust throughout 2020 after being rushed to hospital last Christmas Day with an aggressive brain tumour. He is now working with the charity to raise awareness of the free, local and personal support available to help anyone through their cancer diagnosis, treatment and recovery, and to help raise funds to enable the charity to support even more families.
IT S the family run eatery serving up recipes passed through the generations which have seen it scoop the Best Middle Eastern Restaurant in the UK award twice. Ottoman Kitchen, which opened in the High Street, Southampton in the spring of 2019, was awarded the accolade for the second time in as many years at the recent Asian Restaurant Awards. Judges praised the superb food, decor and atmosphere. The business was a long-held dream for restaurateurs Ali Fistikci and Niyazi Kaya. They hail from a small village outside Istanbul, but had been living in the UK for more than a decade and running a top class butchers in London.
ISLANDERS are being urged not to travel to Portsmouth after it was placed in Tier 4 by prime minister, Boris Johnson this afternoon (Saturday). At the government s latest coronavirus briefing, Johnson announced new measures to combat a new, more transmissable strain of coronavirus, declaring: We cannot continue with Christmas as planned. The Isle of Wight remains under Tier 1 restrictions over Christmas, but as of midnight tonight, just seven miles across The Solent, Portsmouth moved into Tier 4 a lockdown similar to that reimposed nationally last month. However, for those in Tiers 1, 2 and 3, the rules allowing up to three households to meet over the festive period will now be limited to Christmas Day only not the five days as previously planned and that Christmas bubbles for those in Tiers 1-3 will not be able to include anyone in Tier 4.