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...

This year’s Isle of Wight Festival presented by Barclaycard sees Pulp on the main stage on the Friday night - 16th June. An embryonic Pulp was formed in Sheffield in 1978, with Jarvis Cocker at the helm. As a then...

It was a takeover by Girlguiding Isle of Wight at the Wildheart Trust last weekend as all the Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and leaders were working towards a special challenge set by Girlguiding’s Southwest England Region for a day or night...

Girlguiding Isle of Wight leader Emily Knight was recently selected to attend a Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, hosted by The Prince and Princess of Wales and held in the week following the Coronation. Members of the Royal Family...

Hobbyhorse polo matches fit for the King were played out at the Rainbows County Fun Day. To celebrate the Coronation, Rainbows from across the Island enjoyed making crowns, Maypole dancing, singing and games as well as making Hobbyhorses. ready for...

Over 130 Brownies and 30 leaders had fun and adventures at this year's County Day organised by Brownie Commissioner Deborah Meadows and a team of leaders. With a double theme of St George and an international theme of Austria, all...