Staff at Island Roads have lent a helping hand to community nursery Care in the Garden as one of its latest projects supported through its company volunteering scheme. Highways operatives volunteered to help dig out and lay a new footpath...

UPDATED: Firefighters are tackling a fire in the garden of a property in Elmfield, Ryde this morning (Friday). 2 appliances are currently on scene at Carlton Road and Victoria Crescent as both day crewed and retained firefighters work to extinguish...

Red Jet 7, Red Funnel’s new Hi-Speed passenger ferry, which is under construction by Wight Shipyard in East Cowes, is due to enter the water for the first time at the end of May. Work on the £7million vessel is...

The Isle of Wight's Wightlink Warriors speedway team made it 2 home league wins out of 2 as they gradually took the sting out of the Coventry Bees after providing no less than 12 race winners. There was good news...

Cyclist Chris Morey has a set himself a new goal – to give something back to the sport he used to play. Back in 2007, Chris’s beach soccer career, which included four England caps, was ended by a serious knee...

The specific challenges facing the Isle of Wight need to be considered in future government funding, a Treasury minister told Island MP Bob Seely during a parliamentary debate this week. Replying during an ‘economy of the UK islands’ debate, treasury...

Isle of Wight Festival organisers have this morning (Friday) announced a new partnership with Save the Children, the international charity that do whatever it takes to make sure children survive, get protection when they’re in danger and have the chance to...

Firefighters have extinguished a small fire in the kitchen of a property in East Cowes this evening (Thursday). 2 appliances from East Cowes and Newport were mobilised to an address on Osborne Road at just before 20:10. The first crews...

The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are tackling a small fire at the derelict Harcourt Sands complex in Ryde this evening (Thursday). 2 appliances from Ryde Fire Station are currently on scene off Puckpool Hill after being alerted...

Harwoods Garage in Wootton have confirmed that their unleaded fuel storage tanks were filled with diesel last week due to an error during a delivery. On the afternoon of Thursday 3rd May, Certas Energy delivered fuel to Harwood’s Garage but...