Brading Roman Villa will be hosting a charity event over the 3 days of the August Bank Holiday Weekend - and this is the advanced notice of things to come. There will be 3 days of Roman games with gladiator...

Anglo Saxon Treasures exhumed from Chessell Down in the 19th Century have returned to the Isle of Wight and form part of a new exhibition at Carisbrooke Castle Museum. This major exhibition within Princess Elizabeth’s Room in the Museum has...

This year’s biennial Quay Arts Open Exhibition attracted almost 100 entries from across the Island and the South of England, including as far away as London. Would-be entrants were given a nature-related brief to tie in with the Isle of...

The Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC), organisers of the Rolex Fastnet Race, have announced that the City of Cherbourg will host the finish of the Rolex Fastnet Race for the 2021 and 2023 editions of the biennial race, with Cowes...

With the SailGP Cowes dates now confirmed for 2020, it is time to look back on this summer and the community legacy left behind by the fast-paced event. During the SailGP event at Cowes, organisers launched the foundation phase of...

Visit Isle of Wight (VIOW) held its annual tourism conference at Lower Hyde, Shanklin on Wednesday, with Tom Stroud as compere. Will Myles, Managing Director of VIOW, gave an overview of the 2020 marketing creative for the Island. Next year’s...

'Stars of Fleet Street', featuring the work of 5 prominent press photographers, is the latest exhibition at Dimbola Museum & Galleries in Freshwater, curated by Island resident David L White. As well as David’s own photographs the other 4 featured...

'Made in Cowes' is the subject of this year’s exhibition by the Cowes Heritage Society, being staged in Regatta House, Bath Road. A vast number of items have been made in Cowes over the years with this exhibition showing a...

Geoff Banks BEM with his family This year’s presentation of awards by Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight, Mrs Susie Sheldon JP, were held at the Royal Yacht Squadron last Wednesday (2nd October). Guests were welcomed by Brigadier...

3rd place Alan Morris (No. 85) After heavy overnight rain, good weather greeted the competitors who lined up for this year’s Isle of Wight Marathon, hosted by Ryde Harriers and run on a course from Cowes to West Wight and...