430 entries lined up for the 695-mile Rolex Fastnet Race on Saturday 22nd July. Great Britain and France boasted more than a century of entries each and a total of 27 nations are entered. Two ULTIM Trimarans SVR Lazartigue (France)...

For the 50th edition of the Rolex Fastnet Race, organised by the Royal Ocean Racing Club, which starts off Cowes on Saturday, entries are heading towards 460. All the boats are in their respective classes with handicaps so that from...

Following on from tree planting at Pan Country Park last October, 10th Newport Brownies are on the environmental trail again. Back in October, they helped Lord Lieutenant Susie Sheldon plant the Tree of Trees to remember the late Queen. This...

Another record-sized fleet will depart from Cowes to tackle the 50th edition of the Royal Ocean Racing Club’s premier event: the Rolex Fastnet Race later this month (22nd July). At present from across the globe 491 yachts of all shapes...

Schoolchildren from both the Island and the mainland were able to experience what it was like at the start of World War II when they took part in this year's evacuee event. Held at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway...

Performances across the weekend of the Barclaycard Presents Isle of Wight Festival were well received by the thousands attending the festival in Seaclose Park and local businesses and charities were also well represented. With tickets sold out a week before...

Robbie Williams, born Robert Peter Williams on 13th February 1974 in Stoke on Trent, joined Take That in 1990 aged 16. Their first release ‘Do what u want’ did not enter the charts but they became noticed for the wrong...

Love Your Burial Ground Week is running until 11th June, designed to grow our appreciation of churchyards and cemeteries and to encourage the recording of wildlife in these areas. To celebrate this there was a Churches Count on Nature event...

200 members of Girlguiding Isle of Wight attended a special screening of The Little Mermaid last Sunday (4th June). From Rainbows aged 4 to Rangers aged 18, plus leaders, everyone felt part of the bigger story as a screening of...

Back in 1970 when the last of a trio of Isle of Wight Festivals was staged at Afton, amongst the throng of people out on the Downs was a young man by the name of John Giddings. Fast forward 32...