Local Community News

The residents at Blackwater Mill Care Home have been thrilled to welcome their newest residents, Phillip and Lillibet, the cockatiels. The birds were kindly donated to the home by Key’s Little Birds. They were hatched on the 10 August, and...

Degree apprentice Dan Squirrel has graduated into a full-time role with Cowes-based software company Yokogawa Marex – and among his first duties will be mentoring the company’s latest student employee. Dan, of Newport, has completed his 3-year degree apprenticeship with...

A photographic exhibition, aimed at capturing the special connection between Mountbatten and the Island’s community, has been launched. Mountbatten and Me is a unique collection of portraits by Island photographer Julian Winslow to mark 45 years of hospice care on...

L-R: David Kast (Savoyards chairperson), John Hammond, Chris Gardner, Rebecca Gardner and Andrew Woodford (musical director) The Island Savoyards have unveiled a brass plaque in the foyer of Shanklin Theatre denoting the company’s close association with the theatre over the...

NFU Mutual's Isle of Wight agency recently nominated local charity OSEL Enterprises to receive a donation of more than £6,300 from NFU Mutual’s national £1.92million ‘Agency Giving Fund’. The rural insurer has launched this fund, now in its 3rd year, to...

Isle of Wight secondary schools and colleges are invited to apply for a share of £10,000 from Wightlink’s second Green Fund for Schools initiative to support environmental projects on the Island. The first scheme, launched earlier in 2022, supported 15...

Tamarind Indian Restaurant in Newport has been named Restaurant of the Year for the South East at the Bangladesh Caterers Association's annual awards. The prestigious awards ceremony was held on Sunday (30th October) at the Park Plaza Westminster Hotel in...

Pan Together - the charity which exists to support and provide a community hub for the residents of East Newport - is opening its new community larder for the first time on Friday (4th November). Open from 12:00-15:00, going forward,...

Red Funnel is putting out a ‘last call’ for charities to submit applications for its Charity of the Year programme. Every year Red Funnel, together with its staff and customers, select a charity to benefit as the primary recipient of...

The presence onstage of an open coffin does not in itself suggest a hilarious comedy, yet there were laughs aplenty in this production of Wife After Death. The script is a little slow in places, which in other hands could...