Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team were called out following reports of a medical emergency on board a boat this morning (Monday). Solent Coastguard tasked officers to Bembridge Harbour at 11:27 to meet a vessel entering the harbour that had declared an...

2020 was a great year for the gaming industry, with FIFA 21 ranking as UK's Top selling game with around 2.18 million sales. The increase in the number of gamers has been witnessed across the industry, resulting in a rise...

The Solent Local Enterprise Partnership's (LEP) 'New Rules: Ready' program has proved to be enormously useful to a number of businesses from right across the Solent. The programme gives small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Solent region the opportunity...

Local computer gamer Matt Russell will be hosting another 24-hour live stream event later this week, this time raising funds for CLIC Sargent - the UK's children's cancer charity. The stream will begin at 20:00 on Friday (5th March) and...

A new report published by the Isle of Wight Council has revealed that Floating Bridge No.6 has spent the equivalent of 301 days out of service since it arrived on the Island in 2017. The Isle of Wight Council has...

With a roadmap for easing lockdown now revealed, new research reveals that the Isle of Wight is among the top destinations Brits are most itching to visit once domestic travel returns. The results have come following a study of recent...

Island MP Bob Seely has teamed up with local charity Community Action IW to try to secure Post Office provision on the Island. Together they are urging local town and parish councils to help support struggling, or previously unsuccessful, rural...

Walk the Wight will take place in September this year, it has been announced today (Monday). Usually, the annual event is held in May but the coronavirus pandemic has led to Mountbatten taking the decision to push the 2021 date...

Southern Vectis has announced that some of its services will be increasing from next Monday to reflect the Government's latest announcements. From Monday 8th March, Route 5 will revert to every 20 minutes during the day between Monday and Friday,...

The driver of a Transit van has been tasered by Police after crashing into a tree at Knighton this evening (Sunday).  Members of the public came across the Ford Transit tipper on Knighton Shute at just before 19:20. Emergency services...