Local Community News

Residents from Vecta House in Newport were recently treated to a special visit to the Wight Military And Heritage Museum. Harold and Doreen got to enjoy all the memorabilia the museum had on show. Having both worked in the forces,...

For 20-year-old Daniel, who has alpha 1 anti-trypsin deficiency, music has always been a huge part of his life. Now his dream of a career in the music industry is getting close to reality.  Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency is a genetic...

Do you have an unwanted adult bike sitting in your garage? If so why not take it to a bike drop-off on Sunday 2nd April... The event is to be held at Gift to Nature, Shide Meadows Centre PO30 1HR...

Youngsters at a West Wight primary school recently celebrated the opening of their new allotment patch. The team that worked on the new Yarmouth Primary School site volunteered their time to create an attractive vegetable plot for the children to...

Since opening last August, The Terrace Rooms & Wine in Ventnor has gone from strength to strength. Now, they want to thank Islanders for their support by offering a year-long discount. In such a historic building so central to Ventnor’s...

Isle of Wight author Julie Watson is celebrating a lifetime’s worth of travelling while teaching English abroad with her new collection of 40 travel tales, Travel Takeaways: Around the World in Forty Tales, published by Beachy Books. Julie is a...

Sue with her 2 sons, Jayden (Left) and Lucas (Right) £120,000 needs to be raised to allow a mum of 4 to undergo a revolutionary cancer treatment, can you help her? In 2009, at just 35 years old Sue Bulmer...

Schoolchildren across the Southern Water region will learn about how we can all protect and look after our precious water supplies in a new set of classroom modules taking place over the next year. The launch comes in the same...

Age UK Isle of Wight and students from the Isle of Wight College are working together to support older people to get online by offering digital support workshops. During lockdown getting online became increasingly important and vital services are now...

The Isle of Wight Unit of the Maritime Volunteer Service has been officially thanked for their community service following the death of Her Majesty The Queen last year. The volunteers are all part of the national charity which has 20...