Local Community News

The Isle of Wight Ambulance Service provided 670 people with lifesaving skills this year on World Restart a Heart Day (RSHD). Staff and pupils from over 20 schools across the Island were welcomed into 7 different fire stations for the...

Shops in Sandown High Street, and across the town, have been taking part in a fiendishly fun and family-friendly window dressing competition. Guys N Dolls, hairdressers at 117 High Street, received a specially made Wizard Gonk and a box of...

South Wight Area Youth Partnership (SWAY) celebrated their annual residential trip with an awards evening at St Mary’s Church, Brighstone on Thursday (17th October). Young people, families, staff and volunteers came to watch those presented with awards and learn all...

Cowes Primary School has had a very busy few weeks. staging both the Harvest Festival and the annual pumpkin carving competition. The winner from each class in the Pumpkin Carving Competition received a certificate and a small prize. The produce...

The joy of books and reading was brought into 28 local schools during this year’s Isle of Wight Literary Festival. The expanded schools programme saw 18 authors deliver 78 sessions across the Island in just 2 days. Topics ranged from...

A special tribute ramble in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the founding of the RNLI was held earlier this month, named after a prominent figure in the local history of saving lives at sea. Caroline Peel, President of the...

A local student nurse is taking on the Great South Run this Sunday in aid of a children’s heart charity.  21-year-old Katie Bache, who lives in East Cowes, will be running in aid of the Tiny Tickers ‘The Tiny Hearts...

Dover Park Primary School recently celebrated harvest time with a special whole school assembly and a collection of food items for Aspire. The children in Year 1 have been doing lots of work around harvest as part of their Religious...

Mindset Bros - a community dedicated to breaking the silence around men's mental health - is offering free mental health support for men on the Isle of Wight Mindset Bros has been at the forefront of promoting mental health awareness...

Schools, businesses, staff, patients and the MP for Isle of Wight West marked Go Yellow 2024 in aid of Mountbatten Isle of Wight last week (Friday 11th October). There was a lot of dressing up and much eating of yellow...