Newport Golf Club's Nick Matthews is 1 of 4 Hampshire U16 players to have been selected for the England South Region training squad for 2020. The reigning Isle of Wight Junior and Matchplay Champion is still only 16 and has...

Police are appealing for information following a burglary at a house in Freshwater in the early hours of yesterday morning (Tuesday 5th November). Thieves forced entry to shed at a property in School Green Road between 01:00 and 06:30. When...

Firefighters from Shanklin and Ryde have been mobilised to a domestic property fire in Chale this afternoon (Wednesday). 2 appliances are currently en-route to Corve Lane, where smoke is reported to be filling the living room of a house. The...

Island Line services have been suspended this lunchtime (Wednesday) as a result of an electrical train fault. At around 11:45, a train entering Ryde Esplanade station ground to a halt on an incline between Ryde Tunnel and the station. A...

If you have ever wanted to know what happens at Men’s Sheds, now is your chance. Local photographer Jim Owers has captured some of the activities that take place at the 15 sheds across the Isle of Wight. Lois Prior,...

Girlguiding IW played host to one of Girlguiding’s national ambassadors on Sunday (3rd November). Anna McNuff is an endurance athlete, adventurer and speaker and this year her latest challenge has been to try and run the distance of 100 Marathons...

Wightlink's Fishbourne-Portsmouth car ferry service was delayed this morning (Wednesday) when a man refused to disembark, prompting a response from Police. Officers were called to the Gunwharf terminal in Portsmouth at 03:06 following an incident onboard one of the cross-Solent...

With the 2019 BBC Children in Need Appeal show on the horizon, store colleagues from Asda in Newport are getting together to help make a difference with The Pudsey Island Challenge on 9th November.  The 7-hour round the Island challenge will...

Bob Seely has written to the Chief Executive of Sport England – the non-departmental public body responsible for community sport – in support of the plans for the Smallbrook Ice & Leisure Centre. Bob’s letter follows the recent submission of...

The death of a 15-year-old boy at an address on Pan estate last night (Tuesday) is not being treated as suspicious. Paramedics were called to a residential address on Manor Crescent, off Furlongs, at around 21:00. A paramedic crew and...