Celebrities like Joe Wicks, Carol Vorderman and Chris Packham have all been busy lending a hand with home-schooling, and now Bird Aware Solent, a partnership that covers the Isle of Wight and Solent region, have got involved too.  The Bird...

8 utility networks have teamed up to give a £500,000 boost to local community foundations during the coronavirus pandemic. UK Power Networks, SGN, Southern Water, Thames Water, Anglian Water, Affinity Water, SES Water and South East Water are all collaborating...

Member of Parliament for the Isle of Wight, Bob Seely, has welcomed the latest multi-million-pound package of support from Government - designed to protect firms who are driving innovation and development in the UK. The Chancellor’s new £1.25 billion package...

Police on the Isle of Wight say that as far as they are concerned the participation in watersports around the Island's coastline is not permitted during the coronavirus lockdown. HM Coastguard will be joining Hampshire Constabulary in carrying out patrols...

The rural village of Shorwell has been left without power this morning (Wednesday) as a result of a network fault. 32 postcodes in the PO30 3-- area have been affected by the outage. Power was lost at 07:48. Scottish and...

The practicalities of dealing with the coronavirus outbreak are exhausting, but the response from Islanders has been overwhelming – that is the conclusion of a Mountbatten medical consultant, Dr Paul Howard, 4 weeks into the current crisis.   Hospice care focuses...

Firefighters from Ventnor and Shanklin have been called out to a large house in Bonchurch tonight (Tuesday). 2 appliances are currently on scene at The Pitts off Bonchurch Shute. The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service were alerted to...

Local charity Daisy Chains IW has launched a 'basic essential fund', supporting families who have been financially affected by COVID-19. The charity aims to provide basic food/household items parcels, baby parcels or gas/electric top-ups to vulnerable families that are living...

The Government has announced that human trials of a coronavirus vaccine will begin in the UK from Thursday. If successful, it will be the first vaccine for the deadly COVID-19 virus which is killing thousands of people across the world....

There are now 73 confirmed cases of coronavirus on the Isle of Wight, but are we reaching the peak of the pandemic locally? It has been confirmed by Public Health England this afternoon (Tuesday) that the total number of cases...