Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust has been awarded a £640,300 Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant to deliver an exciting programme called ‘Secrets of the Solent’. Thanks to money raised by National Lottery players, this project will help to...

Matt Allsopp of Wightlink-Wight Mountain Cycle Race Team made a solo trip to Portsmouth’s Mountbatten last Wednesday (11th April) for the first in the series of the E12 races held on the track. With a small field of around 20...

Local community groups and charities are being reminded of the opportunity to apply for a grant from the Isle of Wight Foundation, a charitable trust established by Island Roads and its partners. Groups have until noon on Friday 4th May...

A ‘St George's Day 1918' show is being held at St Saviour-on-the-cliff church in Shanklin on Saturday (21st April). The Newchurch Male Voice Choir will be performing in the show along with Cantobelle, Lucy Stevens, Kim Ball and Janet and Mitch Jones....

A small squad of just 1 crew from the Wightlink-sponsored Ryde Rowing Club competed in their first competition of the season on Saturday (14th April) after several earlier planned events had been cancelled due to the weather. The Boys J14 Coxed...

The team from Bodster CIC have begun their tour of the Isle of Wight in a bid to rally support from the local community as they compete for £50,000 in funding to support those with dementia. Bodster CIC, based in...

A determined group of walkers who tackled 50 miles of the Isle of Wight coastline in just 2 days have helped raise more than £40,000 for charity. The walkers were part of brain tumour charity brainstrust’s 'Follow the Seagulls' challenge, which...

Firefighters from Newport and Cowes have attended a small fire at a property in Carisbrooke tonight (Monday). 3 appliances were mobilised to Recreation Ground Road at 21:20 following an emergency call to fire control. The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service...

The Cowes Floating Bridge will be out of service once again this Thursday (19th April) for on-going maintenance work to improve electrical and navigation systems.  Noise-damping material will also be fixed to the bridge’s prow to further reduce the noise...

The Isle of Wight Council's Cabinet has this evening (Monday) rejected controversial plans to change how the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service operates. Following on from the Scrutiny Committee's recommendation to reject the paper, the Cabinet has thrown...