NEWS

Good morning, everyone! After a damp and cloudy morning, the Met Office is predicting a much brighter afternoon, with broken cloud and sun from midday onwards. Temperatures will range from 9 to 12 degrees C, accompanied by light WSW winds.

All island travel services appear to be running to schedule, as of 09.30 this morning, and there are no further reported problems with either our roads or traffic.

Friendly Cabs … Read on

Good morning, everyone! The Met Office is forecasting a day of rather mixed weather. Overcast first thing, we should see broken cloud and sun between 08.00 and 11.00, followed by fog, drizzle and rain late morning and for the rest of the afternoon, with mist taking over around 19.00. Temperatures will range from 10 to 12 degrees C, accompanied by light to moderate WSW winds.

All island travel services appear … Read on

Good morning, everyone! After an overcast morning, the Met Office is promising broken cloud and some sunny spells during the afternoon, with the odd shower thrown in for good measure! Temperatures will range from 9 to 11 degrees C, accompanied by moderate SW (becoming WSW) winds, with localised gusts of up to 40mph.

Morton Common in Sandown remains closed due to flooding. Keep in mind that traffic at Yarbridge Cross … Read on

Good morning, everyone! The Met Office is expecting a mostly overcast day with the odd glimpse of sun during the afternoon. Temperatures will range from 5 to 7 degrees C, accompanied by light NW winds.

The following Red Jet sailings have been “cancelled due to unplanned maintenance required to Red Jet 6.”

From Cowes: 07.50 and 09.00
From Southampton: 08.25

All other island travel services appear to be running to … Read on

Good morning, all! After a glorious start to Tuesday, cloud is expected to roll in from midday and remain for the rest of the day. Temperatures will range from 3 to 7 degrees C, accompanied by light and variable N (becoming variable E) winds.

All island travel services appear to be running to schedule, as of 08.00 this morning, and there are no further reported problems with either our roads … Read on

Good morning, everyone! The sun is out and the Met Office is promising it might just hang around for a couple of days! Temperatures today will range from 6 to 9 degrees C, accompanied by light to moderate W winds.

All island travel services appear to be running to schedule, as of 09.45 this morning, and there are no further reported problems with either our roads or traffic.

Friendly Cabs … Read on

Good morning, everyone! The Met Office is forecasting a rather grey and wet Sunday, with rain expected throughout until 18.00 this evening. Temperatures will range from 5 to 9 degrees C, accompanied by light to moderate WSW winds.

From the Hover Travel website:

Services are cancelled due to adverse weather conditions. The next update will be at 10:45. Tickets will be accepted on the Wightlink fast Cat Service. – Please … Read on

Good morning, everyone! Yes, that big orange thing is called “the sun”, in case you’d forgotten what it looked like! 😁 The Met Office says there should be quite a bit of it today, right through until sunset! Temperatures will be colder, however, ranging from 2 to 6 degrees C, accompanied by light and variable N winds.

There has been an accident on Forest Road, at the junction of Whitehouse … Read on

Friendly Cabs is now closed for a short half-term holiday. We will re-open at 06.00 on 23/02.

If you’d like to book a taxi for Monday 23/02 or thereafter, please just shoot us a quick email to hello@friendlycabs.co.uk. We will be monitoring emails whilst we’re away.

Our Friendly Cabs FaceBook page will be updated every morning, as usual.

Many thanks,

Duncan
Friendly Cabs

Friendly Cabs has just become the first Isle of Wight taxi company to EVER hit 200 Google reviews and, what’s even more astonishing, every single review is a 5 Star review!

To put that into full context, the oldest and largest taxi company on the island has been in business for 75+ years and has a very large fleet of vehicles and drivers.

Friendly Cabs is one of the smallest … Read on