The 2021 Isle of Wight Sports Achievement Awards gala showcased the very best of Island sport last Thursday (31st March). The special guest at the awards ceremony was gold medal-winning Olympic sailor, Shirley Robertson. Isle of Wight Beach Soccer received...

100 girls and leaders from 6 Isle of Wight Girlguiding units travelled to Legoland Windsor last weekend (2nd/3rd April). With perfect warm and sunny weather, it was just the right time to take those rides and enjoy all the fun....

Mark Radcliffe Singer Chesney Hawkes and BBC DJ Mark Radcliffe are among the 1st names announced for the 2022 Drumming and Strumming for Shanklin Theatre line-up. The 90s singer will headline the event. Meanwhile, Mark Radcliffe, who can be heard...

The Texas Scramble at Shanklin and Sandown Golf Club raised £1,574 for the Isle of Wight Golf Team on Sunday (3rd April). The event was organised to fundraise for the Isle of Wight Golf Team to attend the Island Games...

The Phoenix Choir launched themselves into the first of a full programme of live concerts for 2022 at East Cowes Town Hall on Saturday (2nd April). The concert was a joyous occasion, sang to a near capacity audience, after a...

Robert Lowe A 100-year-old barge that survived the Nazis in WWII - and later a devastating fire in Bembridge - will now be scrapped. Rijnstroom IV, currently a houseboat moored at Bembridge Harbour, was built in 1922 to carry grain...

The Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, of Dimbola Museum and Galleries in Freshwater, have been given £41,670 Arts Council emergency funding. This grant money will ensure that Dimbola, the former home of Julia Margaret Cameron, will be open and ready for...

Pip SpibeyAll 3 Island sides were victorious on the final Saturday of the hockey season (2nd April). The Ladies’ 1XI welcomed Blandford and Sturminster. Blandford looked threatening at times on the break, but once the Island found their rhythm, they...

Ventnor 2nds welcomed a depleted Chichester 3rd XV to Watcombe Bottom on Saturday (2nd April). Chichester sportingly travelled with just 12 players. In the spirit of 2nd XV rugby, Ventnor evened up the teams by lending players, and the game...

Some of the UK’s top wrestlers will be grappling and slamming their way into Newport’s Medina Theatre on Saturday (9th April). The bill will feature some of the country's top grapplers, including LDN British Champion Alan Lee Travis, the American...