The Isle of Wight Festival has been shortlisted for the Major Festival of the Year in the LIVE Awards 2024. The other nominees are Victorious Festival, Latitude Festival, Kendal Calling and Reading & Leeds. TRNSMT Festival were the winners of...

Medina Bookshop welcomes back legendary troubadour Jason McNiff to the Isle of Wight on Sunday 3rd November. Jason's last performance on the Island was around 15 years ago to a packed house upstairs at the Bargeman's Rest in Newport. This...

Ventnor - who travelled with just 16 players - put on an exceptional display in Hampshire Counties 3 at Overton on Saturday 26th October. After a stuttering performance against Romsey the previous Saturday, director of rugby Neil Evans brought in...

Island residents are being invited to help shape the priorities for local health care services in their area over the next 5 years. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare, a new NHS Foundation Trust formed on 1 October 2024, to...

Parents from Godshill, Arreton and Wroxall Primary schools are putting a proposal to Isle of Wight Council for their 3 schools - all earmarked for closure - to be merged. The parents believed that if their own schools could not...

Orchard House Care Home made a dream come true for resident Rita by taking her to see St Catherine's lighthouse. Rita has always cherished the image of a lighthouse, bringing with her a large photograph of one when she moved...

Whitecroft & Barton made it 8 wins out of 8 in Harwoods Division 1 yesterday afternoon with a 3-1 home win over Ventnor, joining their table-topping opponents on 24 points but with 2 games in hand. W&B had their captain,...

The Isle of Wight played a very significant role in the development of the hydrofoil in the 20th century. On 24th July 1968, The Times 'Hovercraft & Hydrofoils special' included the following statement: "The hovercraft and modern hydrofoil are both...

Cowes captain John McKie scored a 1st half hat trick in half-an-hour as the Yachtsmen put 5 goals past Laverstock & Ford this afternoon (Saturday). The Yachtsmen have now taken 13 points out of a possible 15 in their last...

Women born in the 1950s from the Isle of Wight, are expected to join thousands in Westminster to protest against the way increases to their State Pension age were communicated. The WASPI women – or Women Against State Pension Inequality...