Local Community News

Emma Muncaster and father Wessex Cancer Trust teamed up with Skydive Isle of Wight and Sandown Airport for 25 brave individuals to take to the skies on Wednesday 10 August to raise £21,452.94 for the Trust. The daring skydivers were...

Staff from Cowes-based technology company Yokogawa Marex have teamed up with Gift to Nature to remove harmful Himalayan Balsam along the Eastern Yar at Newchurch. A team of volunteers from the software solutions company took to the wetlands along the...

Vectis Historic vehicle club handed over a £2,500 cheque to Ability Dogs 4 Young People on 21st September. The cheque was presented by Peter Hodgson, Club President on behalf of all club members. 16 Classic Cars attended the photo shoot...

People living in Bembridge are set to benefit from fresh investment into local football facilities. Bembridge Youth FC have been awarded a grant from the Premier League, The FA and Government’s Football Foundation, to upgrade its facilities. This grant will...

Determined to produce 10,000 poppies in time for a Remembrance Day display in Ryde, volunteers knitted in St Thomas’ Square in Newport on Saturday morning. As each poppy was finished, it was attached to a screen in preparation for the...

The annual rally organised by the Isle of Wight branch of the Morris Minor Owner’s Club took place at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway this September and saw over 50 Minors and 20 other Classic Cars coming from far...

West Wight Men In Sheds have opened a separate workshop for its woodworking machinery, thanks to an anonymous donation of £4,000. The registered charity has been raising funds to expand its facilities over the last 12 months using Just Giving,...

Dominic Minghella Sight for Wight is running the Island’s short story writing competition again this year after the success of last year’s, which produced some very high-quality entries, despite lockdown and everything being ‘virtual’.  Running for over a decade, Sight...

Residents at Orchard House Care Home in Newport have been treated to the musical talents of Wight Diamonds Marching Band.  The band played well-known music that residents sang along with, and at times accompanied the band by playing tambourines, cymbals,...

The Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth has celebrated a Jubilarian Mass, to mark the Jubilees of ordination for Priests who have devoted themselves to the Priesthood, both in the UK and some abroad, totalling over 535 years to God’s service. The...