The third annual ‘Celebrating Age Awards’ were held at Lakeside Spa Hotel, Wootton on Thursday. Emma Lincoln from Age UK/IW welcomed everyone to the Awards Ceremony and introduced John Hannam who acted as Master of Ceremonies for the evening. John thanked...

Hosted by Red Funnel, the inaugural ’Tea on the Sea’ was the first event of this year’s ‘Celebrating Age Festival’. This is the second annual festival organised by Age Friendly Island/Age UK Isle of Wight. Appropriately, the week commenced on...

Students from the Isle of Wight Studio School descended on TheYachtMarket.com Southampton Boat Show last Thursday (21st September). In line with the school's ethos of engagement with the business community over 100 students took the opportunity to see for themselves...

During Lendy Cowes Week this year there was some tight and exciting sailing in the Fast40+ Class, with sailing in the class described as unique, fast, fun, and at times frustrating. Over the past few days the Fast 40 + Class...

With a new venue and a new format, this year’s Little Britain Challenge Cup for members of the construction industry took place recently and saw the event's 30th anniversary. After some keen racing, with courses set by the Island Sailing Club,...

Warmth and bright sunshine were the order of the opening day of TheYachtMarket.com Southampton Boat Show. Based in Mayflower Park, next door to the Red Funnel terminal, the 10 day event is the first of an initial 2 years sponsorship...

Osborne House with the Peggy Jarman Trophy. Photo by Alan and Suzanne Whitewood Northwood House in Cowes was once again the venue for the awards ceremony for this year’s Wight in Bloom competition, sponsored by Red Funnel. From the 131...

Age Friendly Island’s second annual Celebrating Age Festival is set to begin on International Older Persons Day, Sunday 1st October. This year’s festival promotes the richness and diversity of the Isle of Wight’s communities with events to interest all Islanders....

TheYachtMarket.com, the new sponsors of the Southampton Boat Show, are certainly planning, in partnership with British Marine, a variety of entertainment for this year’s show which will be open to the public from 15th September to 24th September. Visitors to the show...

Students at Carisbrooke College are celebrating what Executive Headteacher Peter Shaw has described as 'a really encouraging set of GCSE results'. There have been some excellent individual results for a number of students with several gaining the new ‘9’ as...