Isle of Wight MP Bob Seely is urging West Wight residents to take up the offer of a free slow-drain water butt as part of a campaign to clean up the environment and reduce storm overflows. Letters are currently being...

Staff and Children at Tops Newport are celebrating a positive visit from Ofsted inspectors in which they were given a 'Good' rating. According to the Ofsted report, ‘children excitedly come into nursery and have warm and secure bonds with staff....

The winning numbers in this week’s Isle of Wight Lottery draw (15th March 2024) are… Amount (£) Number £1,000.00 16988 £100.00 15789 £100.00 17890 £100.00 12404 £100.00 13270 £100.00 1574 £100.00 14081 £100.00 14833 £100.00 17637 £100.00 17015 £100.00 16368

The following planning applications and appeals have been submitted to the Isle of Wight Council. They can be viewed online at www.iwight.com/planning. Alternatively, they can be viewed at Seaclose Offices, Fairlee Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 2QS. Comments on the...

Cross-Solent operator Red Funnel has said that it is keen to replace its 'ageing' vehicle ferries with greener and more customer-friendly ships. No exact date for a fleet replacement has been given, but ongoing issues on all 3 of Red...

The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has been scrambled to the outskirts of Merstone this afternoon (Thursday) in response to an ongoing medical emergency in the area. Having left their Thruxton base at around 14:20, the green and...

Ryde Carnival has announced its 2024 Carnival poster commission.  The poster commissions were funded through Ryde HAZ’s (Heritage Action Zone) cultural project: Waving the Flag. Following the success of the 2022 and 2023 posters, Ryde Carnival is once again looking...

Have you ever heard the music trapped in a coat hanger? If you had been at Clare Murphy’s storytelling performance of UniVerse at Quay Arts recently, you would have heard it. It was just one of the delightful engaging moments...

Newchurch Male Voice Choir is to hold a concert, Songs of the Sea, in support of the Sandown/Shanklin Independent Lifeboat this weekend. The event, starting at 19:30 this Saturday (16th March), is to be held at Sandown's Christ Church on...

The RSPCA has received almost 13,000 reports about animals found severely injured, trapped, mutilated, choked or even dead from carelessly discarded litter over the past 4 years, with a total of 45 of them from the Isle of Wight. The...