Local Community News

The Mariners of Wight donated £1,800 to charity at their 2022 Annual General Meeting at the Holmwood Hotel on Friday (25th March). The Mariners are a group of retired and active Merchant Navy Officers who meet regularly throughout the year...

The Wight Aviation Museum – based at Sandown Airport – is ready for its Grand Opening on the weekend of Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th April. Over the last 5 years, an empty hangar has been transformed – through the efforts...

45 years of hospice services on the Isle of Wight has been celebrated with a special ‘torch run’. Teams of staff from both Mountbatten Isle of Wight and Mountbatten Hampshire in Southampton ran from one hospice to the other, via...

The Isle of Wight and the National Trust’s Needles Old Battery will be featured on Channel 5 this Friday when naturalist Kate Humble’s coast walks series is aired. ‘Kate Humble’s Coastal Britain’, which will air on TV screens at 20:00...

Sandown & Lake Football Club have installed a much-needed defibrillator for use by the local community at their Fairway ground. The funds for the defibrillator were raised by a charity football match, collecting tins in local businesses and thanks to...

Monkey Haven is celebrating bringing home silver at the prestigious 2022 Charity Film Awards. A gala ceremony was held at the Odeon Leicester Square last Tuesday (22n March), where the Newport-based attraction picked up silver for the People's Choice award....

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Medefer won an award for Best Elective Care Recovery Initiative at this year’s HSJ Partnership Awards 2022.  The team found out that they had been shortlisted for their elective recovery programme - Clinically assessing and...

The Isle of Wight is the latest UK destination to feature in an award-winning series of travel guides. Author and journalist Mark Rowe – who has visited the Island over 30 times since first spending childhood holidays here – has...

Travel and tourism students from the Isle of Wight College recently exchanged their classroom for Wightlink’s hybrid ferry Victoria of Wight to find out more about the company’s sustainable and environmental policies.   Senior Master Captain Sam Mitchell welcomed the group...

In response to the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, Isle of Wight Round Table has donated £3,500 to fellow Island charity MAD-Aid, covering the full logistical costs of sending an artic lorry full of aid across Europe. Isle of Wight...