Wightlink Steward Anni Ruecroft has been looking after 4-legged friends as well as customers over the last few weeks. Cat lover Anni asked her colleagues to donate food for feline residents at the Nine Lives Cat Rescue centre at Wroxall...

Local charity Independent Arts is inviting older members of the community to join creative sessions as part of their Arts Council funded project Time & Tide. Arts and heritage cafés will be running at local libraries throughout the whole of...

Island Roads has helped Hunnyhill Primary School create a new construction area designed to encourage pupils to build their skills. The school has developed a special construction zone as part of work to help early years pupils develop their personal,...

Island families are set to benefit from the government's extension of tax-free childcare, which now includes support for children up to the age of 9. In April 2017 HM Revenue and Customs started rolling out Tax-Free Childcare, which helps working...

The walled garden at Osborne House will bloom with a 'battlefield to butterflies' feature this May to commemorate Britain’s parks, gardens and grounds staff who died in the First World War. Wildflowers including poppies and cornflowers will blossom among barbed...

Cllr Lilley, ward councillor for Ryde East which includes Appley Tower Over 50 people crammed into Ryde Rowing Club on Friday (12th January) to discuss their ideas for the currently empty Appley Tower. The Tower was leased to a private...

UPDATED: Firefighters are responding to a road traffic collision between a car and a van on Military Road alongside the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service and Police this morning (Tuesday). 2 appliances from Newport, 1 from Freshwater and 2 fire...

A landmark deal has been signed between Bear Hunt Films and Visit Isle of Wight which will bring ‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ to life in 2018 on the Island. The year-long agreement will see a series of specially...

MP Bob Seely has told Parliament he will meet with a defence minister soon to discuss a new radar technology demonstrator at BAE Systems’ facility in Cowes. Speaking the Commons during a defence debate, Bob said the Government must look...

UPDATED: Firefighters are attending to a small chimney fire at a property in Binstead this evening (Monday). 2 appliances from Ryde and Newport are on scene at Sherbourne Avenue, where a bucket of water is being used to extinguish the fire...