Local Community News

100 girls and leaders from 6 Isle of Wight Girlguiding units travelled to Legoland Windsor last weekend (2nd/3rd April). With perfect warm and sunny weather, it was just the right time to take those rides and enjoy all the fun....

This Friday, the Isle of Wight’s Wet Leg will release their eagerly anticipated self-titled debut album. Since unleashing their first single in June last year, things have moved at lightning speed for the Island's very own Rhian Teasdale and Hester...

I took my seat at Shanklin Theatre for the first show in a three-performance run feeling slightly puzzled. I’d heard of Orpheus – but not that he rocked – and what was the ‘And More’? I was to find out...

The Phoenix Choir launched themselves into the first of a full programme of live concerts for 2022 at East Cowes Town Hall on Saturday (2nd April). The concert was a joyous occasion, sang to a near capacity audience, after a...

RSPCA Animal Care Assistant Vanessa Cox is taking on the gruelling Isle of Wight Challenge to raise vital funds for ongoing work to provide emergency treatment for animals. Vanessa will be walking 106 kilometres around the Island between 30th April-1st...

Robert Lowe A 100-year-old barge that survived the Nazis in WWII - and later a devastating fire in Bembridge - will now be scrapped. Rijnstroom IV, currently a houseboat moored at Bembridge Harbour, was built in 1922 to carry grain...

The Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, of Dimbola Museum and Galleries in Freshwater, have been given £41,670 Arts Council emergency funding. This grant money will ensure that Dimbola, the former home of Julia Margaret Cameron, will be open and ready for...

Generous Wightlink customers who bought the Isle of Wight ferry company’s charity calendar for 2022 have raised £450 for the Injured Jockeys Fund. The calendar features striking pictures of Wightlink’s ships and ports, all taken by crew members and other...

Staff at Southern Vectis are mourning the loss of much-loved former colleague, Alan Cooley - best known for painting mallyshags on the Island's buses for almost 50 years. Alan retired in 2014 after some 49-and-a-half years as a painter for...

Cowes Primary School recently held a very special Fairy Tale Ball and it was the first time parents had been invited to attend since the pandemic hit. Sunfish class were thrilled to receive an invitation from HRH Prince Charming to...