Wight Tri Member, Kevin Read took on the Outlaw X Half Ironman event held at Thoresby Hall in Nottinghamshire,  raising over £800 for Isle of Wight Defibrillators last weekend. Due to the cold lake temperatures, the 1900m swim was shortened...

George and Ivy were the most popular names for boys and girls on the Isle of Wight last year, according to the Office for National Statistics. Of the 553 boys born to Isle of Wight mothers last year, 12 were...

Sandown & Shanklin secured a 3-point victory in a tough and physical game against Bognor in Counties 2 Hampshire on Saturday 1st October. The visitors started brightly and this caused Bognor issues, which resulted in 2 yellow cards in quick...

Wightlink-Wight Mountain Cycle Race Team team member, Ben Johnson, competed in the annual 3 Peaks Cyclo-Cross race in the Yorkshire Dales National Park last weekend - billed as the toughest and biggest Cyclo-Cross event in the UK. With over 1,000...

Comparative Key Stage 2 results for the South of England (the darker the blue, the better the result). Provisional results for the 2021/22 school year, released last month, have revealed that the Isle of Wight has the worst Key Stage...

This season has seen 3 games, 3 wins and 3 try bonus points for Isle of Wight RFC, who continued with their impressive start to the season by beating Portsmouth 2nds, despite 6 enforced changes to last week’s derby-winning side....

Island resident and Wight Tri member, Rob Johnson, competed in the gruelling SwimRun World Championships in Stockholm, Sweden, last month. This was a race he had to qualify for through the global SwimRun series with his SwimRun partner Chris Goodfellow,...

Man-of-the-match John McKie In what was dubbed “the greatest comeback since Lazarus” by 1 Cowes fan, the Yachtsmen took all 3 Wessex Premier points against Laverstock & Ford at Westwood Park on Tuesday evening (4th October). Laverstock are the strong,...

Ray Allen Ryde resident Raymond Allen, who wrote the popular 70s sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, has sadly died aged 82. Ray was born on the Island in March 1940 and attended Ryde Secondary Modern School. After leaving school,...

Isle of Wight senior hockey saw triumph on home turf, as well as overall success, with 3 out of 4 sides victorious on Saturday (1st October). The 1st game of the season for the ladies’ 2XI, was at home to...