Local Community News

Orchard House Care Home is celebrating Storytelling Week by welcoming local authors to share their stories with residents.

Pupils from the Broadlea Primary School Council met with Lake Parish Councillor Paul Brading recently, to discuss options for the proposed Manor Road playground project, and overwhelmingly chose their preferred design.

Isle of Wight-based psychotherapist and hypnotherapist Jane Giles is marking the launch of her new book, Conscious Upgrade: Reprogram Your Subconscious, Activate Your Superconscious, with a special book signing event in Cowes next month.

The New Year brings a new cause for Red Funnel, as Newport-based Friends of the Animals has been crowned the ferry operator’s Charity of the Year 2026.

Albany Lodge 151 has donated more than £2,300 to Ryde Beach Lifeguards in support of their life-saving work on the beaches of the Isle of Wight.

Brighstone’s much-loved Christmas Tree Festival has raised over £6,000, with more than 150 tree spaces booked in record time. Now in its third year under organisers Di Woodhouse and Emily Waters, the popular event drew visitors from both the Isle...

A Carisbrooke couple have lost more than 16-and-a-half stone between them after a life-threatening health scare prompted a major lifestyle overhaul.

A Newport-based author has released a new novel that explores post-pandemic Britain through the lives of a close-knit group of friends.

The Big Wight Beach Clean is set to return this weekend, with volunteers encouraged to join the effort at Grange Chine on Saturday (10th January) from 09:00.

Residents from The Elms Care Home visited Bembridge Lifeboat Station on Monday (30th December) to hand over funds raised during a Christmas event - and to enjoy a live launch of the station’s D Class lifeboat.