Local Community News

The Big Help Out is a national day of volunteering on 8th May, the Bank Holiday Monday of the Coronation weekend and has been hailed as one of the centrepieces of the celebrations across the country. The Island is no...

More than 500 Explorer Scouts, Network Scouts and Student Scout and Guide Organisation members, aged 14 to 25, were on the Island for an Easter Weekend full of adventure and fun.    The Scouts and Guides were on the Island for...

Roofer and former Shanklin football captain Iain Seabrook has raised more than £3,000 for St Catherine's School by completing the London Marathon in a time of 5 hours and 29 minutes. Iain has followed the example of female Shanklin footballer...

Maddie Taylor, who lives in Overton, Hampshire, will be taking on the Isle of Wight Ultra Challenge on Saturday (29th April) to raise funds for The Migraine Trust, the UK’s leading migraine charity. 21-year-old Maddie, who lives with migraine with...

Medina marching band will be heading to the continent as a UK representative at the Roeselare VE Day International Tattoo in Belgium next week. The Newport-based and has been working on a new display in recent weeks, arranged by Drum...

Aldi is helping communities on the Isle of Wight celebrate the Coronation in style with a huge voucher giveaway. The supermarket is giving away £500 in Aldi vouchers to 10 lucky winners to purchase food, drinks, and decorations for any...

Last Friday saw fair weather and calm seas for this year's first ‘Music on the Move’, from Yarmouth to Winchester. Passengers and school children were greeted on an early crossing on Wightlink’s Wight Sun service from Yarmouth to Lymington with...

The High Sheriff of the Isle of Wight Dawn Haig-Thomas will formally open the 250th gate installed by the Isle of Wight Ramblers next month. Through their Donate a Gate project, Isle of Wight Ramblers has been replacing stiles with...

A historic diocesan cope, which dates to the 1660s and boasts a dramatic history, is to feature in a new book detailing the treasures of the Isle of Wight’s Carisbrooke Castle Museum. The cope’s origins and story thereafter narrate a...

Shanklin Town Brass Band is to hold a concert later this month to raise funds for Island-based charity Aspire. The concert, which will be held at Aspire in Ryde, takes place on the evening of Saturday 29th April at 19:00....