Local Community News

Staff normally based at Utilita’s Energy Hub in Newport have signed up to take part in the ‘Future Steps’ campaign – a 10,000 steps-a-day challenge during the month of February to raise vital funds for The Prince’s Trust. With unemployment...

16-year-old Millie Lake, who has been training with Threatretrain since she was just 7-years-old, has been offered places to study songwriting at both The Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) and The British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM).  Millie, from...

A woman from Ryde has featured on Channel 5's Bargain Brits on Benefits, a programme which highlights how different people on various benefits are making their money go further. Lei Hang, better known as the Thrifty Island Girl, has featured...

Money accidentally left by passengers on board Wightlink’s ferries will help the charity Solent Mind support people with mental health issues across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.  At the end of each year, Wightlink donates unclaimed money to charity....

Network Ryde has received funding from the High Sherriff of the Isle of Wight to put together even more care packs for youngsters in the town, to give young people things to do and be creative at home whilst in...

The Isle of Wight Steam Railway is celebrating its 50th anniversary. On 24th January 1971, crowds of well-wishers had flocked to Newport station and lined the line to Havenstreet, to witness the town’s last trains. In the late 1960s, the...

Island housebuilders Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes are encouraging their residents to join in with the largest garden wildlife survey in the world – the Big Garden Birdwatch! The Birdwatch, run by the RSPB since 1979, invites people across...

Families and young people joined a South Wight Area Youth Partnership (SWAY) zoom session last week to cook a delicious chilli from scratch as part of the ‘Box Project’. SWAY’s Box Project is aimed at bringing people together and overcoming...

Local photographer and weather forecaster Jamie Russell has captured on camera a light dusting of snow at the highest point on the Isle of Wight. Whilst St Boniface Down in Ventnor experienced snowfall overnight, most other places across the Island...

Quay Arts have partnered up with the Isle of Wight Steam Railway to celebrate their 50th anniversary at Havenstreet by arranging an online exhibition entitled 'Off the Rails'. The exhibition, which runs until Saturday 20th March, celebrates the 50th anniversary...