Local Community News

Artist Lisa Traxler. Photo: Julian Winslow Newport's Quay Arts Centre is set to unveil a new exhibition, drawing inspiration from historical Dazzle camouflage and its relationship to the Island's maritime heritage. Taking over three gallery spaces, Dazzle + Disrupt showcases...

Last year's geocache winners. Following last year’s fantastic success and celebrating being able to meet outside in small groups safely while restrictions are still in place, South Wight Area Youth have plotted another geo-cache route based on the Easter theme...

Plans for a bungalow in Lake have been refused again by the Isle of Wight Council. The applicants, WS Group, however, have slammed the council for ‘only paying lip service to proactive working’ and ‘for only finding problems, not solutions’....

An Isle of Wight shipbuilder is set to manufacture 3 further vessels after an order from an offshore energy support firm. High Speed Transfers, an innovative crew transfer vessel operator that supports the offshore wind energy and oil and gas...

Local firm Diametric Technical has donated over 4,000 lip balms as part of 'thank you' boxes to staff at the Isle of Wight NHS Trust to recognise their unwavering support to the Island's community throughout the pandemic. The company -...

A new 2-day online festival is set to bring the richness of the natural world to schools and families across London and Kent, thanks to a collaboration between Isle of Wight Biosphere ecologists and artists, one of London’s most popular...

A Ventnor Esplanade tea hut is looking to expand by adding a balcony area. Planning permission is being sought by Blake and Spencer to change its beach office, which currently stands above the beach at pavement level, into a cafe....

Macie Edkins-Wherry and her mum Dana, have been putting their time in lockdown to use by raising funds for those in need. An Isle of Wight secondary school student, who has become well known for her fundraising efforts, has been...

Mountbatten Community Choir has released a song to mark 1 year since the UK went into lockdown on 23rd March 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. 'One Day Soon' is a song of hope that expresses the isolation...

As we all prepare for coming out of lockdown, birds along the Solent coastline are preparing for their next stage – migrating across the world to their own breeding grounds. Bird Aware Solent has been promoting their importance to the...