Apollo Theatre is looking for 10 actors to take part in the production of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time', to be performed in the New Year. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, based...

Cowes Primary School has had a very busy few weeks. staging both the Harvest Festival and the annual pumpkin carving competition. The winner from each class in the Pumpkin Carving Competition received a certificate and a small prize. The produce...

Isle of Wight, Ventnor and Sandown & Shanklin all swallowed the bitter taste defeat on Saturday (19th October). In Hampshire Counties 2, Isle of Wight suffered their heaviest home loss in several years against league leaders Winchester II. The visitors...

Whitecroft & Barton Sports have maintained their 100% record with a workmanlike win over Northwood St Johns at Cowes Community Club. Sam Cant and Josh Appell were on target for the league champions. W&B have won all their fixtures this...

Steynewood (or Steyne Wood) Battery appears to be a comfortable detached house, no different to other expensive properties in East Wight - but it is actually one of the best preserved surviving Victorian batteries in England. Strangely, the battery was...

East Cowes Victoria beat higher league opposition in Gloucestershire this afternoon (Saturday) to advance to the 2nd round of the FA Vase. Their opponents - Cotswold club Fairford Town - play in the Hellenic Premier Division, 1 step above Vics....

East Cowes Victoria travel to the Cotswolds today to face Gloucestershire club Fairford Town in the first round proper of the FA Vase. Vics are the only Isle of Wight side still standing in the competition after Cowes were knocked...

2 young women - Clara Green and Annie Morgan - were sentenced to terms of imprisonment by Newport magistrates for a series of audacious frauds, the Hampshire Advertiser reported on 18th September 1924. The pair - who were said to...

A rare 'blonde' leucistic red squirrel has been photographed at Ventnor Botanic Garden here on the Isle of Wight. Such squirrels are even rarer than 'white' albino squirrels. Experts claim that less than 1 in a million squirrels possess the...

Blackgang Chine is busy blowing up large inflatable sugar skulls as it gets ready to welcome back the nationally award-winning Fiesta of the Dead later this month. This family Halloween event, inspired by Día de los Muertos, is running on...