Local Community News

Not a single person more could have been crammed onto the stage at Bembridge Village Hall for GASP’s inaugural production of Pirates of Penzance. Performed by a cast from a range of theatrical and musical backgrounds, and playing to full houses, it...

Sandown Town Councillors, with members of the Beach Safety Team, helped champion World Heart Care Day this week by raising awareness of the network of defibrillators in the town, as well as unveiling plans for a new defibrillator at St...

L-R: Leo Roberts formally receiving the vehicle from Terry Hussey A bus that once trundled across the Isle of Wight has been gifted to the Isle of Wight Bus Museum. The Bristol RESL 808, registration HDL 23E, has been kindly...

His Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight, Susie Sheldon, presented the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service to Pan Together on Wednesday. This is the highest award a voluntary organisation can receive in the UK and is the organisational equivalent...

Last week Veterans Outreach Support held a drop-in session at the Riverside Centre in Newport, supporting Island Veterans and their families. The sessions, to which all veterans are welcome, offer support and help in many ways, a number of delivery...

Karen Dolan Jo Rees - from St Helens - will run the London Marathon on Sunday, hoping to raise £3,000 for the PLANETS Cancer Charity. She has been inspired to take part in the marathon by the story of Karen...

MAN v FAT is bringing Challenge, its home-based healthy living and competitive digital weight loss programme for men who want to improve their physical and mental health, to the Isle of Wight for the first time, with funded places available....

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...