Around 2,500 competitors from 24 islands paraded around St Peter Port on Saturday evening to mark the start of the 2023 Guernsey Island Games. Thousands of enthusiastic spectators thronged the seafront and North Beach in St Peter Port. The crowds...

Former Carisbrooke High School student Brandon Robinson-Thompson has qualified for the 151st Open at Royal Liverpool. The Islander - who grew up in Freshwater and learned the game at Freshwater Bay Golf Club - achieved qualification by coming 2nd in...

Ventnor Hurricanes won the Isle of Wight Under-15 Cup by beating Ryde Rattlers by 7 wickets at Steephill on Wednesday evening. Ryde won the toss and elected to bat. The Rattlers made 129 runs for the loss of 6 wickets...

The Isle of Wight are taking a team of 30 athletes to the Island Games in Guernsey - competing in a total of 42 events. Our Island Athletics team will be hoping to improve on their 5th place in the...

Last season's Division 1 runners-up, Whitecroft & Barton Sports, have made 3 impressive new summer signings ahead of the start of the 2023/24 season. W&B have signed up 2 forwards - Sam Cant and Kyle Drew - and 1 midfielder,...

The Wight Aviation Museum team welcomed the well-known and highly respected aircraft preservation guru, avid historian, renowned author and magazine editor Ken Ellis last weekend. Ken is the former long standing editor of the well known "Flypast" magazine; he is...

The Isle of Wight 1st XI beat the MCC at Westhill with 4 wickets and 14 overs to spare on Monday (3rd July). MCC won the toss and elected to bat. The touring side reached a respectable total of 236...

Watson beating wife to death The Reverend John Selby Watson - otherwise known as the Stockwell Murderer - died in Parkhurst Prison on 6th July 1884. The Stockwell murderer was a highly educated man. Watson was a clegyman, author, translator...

The Isle of Wight men's football team will be travelling to Guernsey hoping to take gold for the 1st time since 2011, when the games were held on the Isle of Wight. 16 islands are competing in the men's tournament...

Ryde's Ben Sanderson. Winner Men's Novice Sculls. Ryde Rowing Club took its largest group of competitors so far this season to Swanage Regatta on Saturday (1st July 2023). Altogether, 4 fours crews, 3 coxless pairs and 4 scullers competed for...