Local Community News

The Freshwater, Yarmouth and Totland Community Bus service - FYTbus - is enjoying a triple celebration. The first piece of positive news is that the community asset is now back running a pre-COVID-19 service of 2 morning and 1 afternoon...

Barratt Developments, comprising Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, has become the first major housebuilder to be commended for its targets to reduce its carbon emissions by a leading company calling for action against climate change.  The UK’s leading sustainable...

Katrina Kelly and members of Line Dance IW, and the Island's High Sheriff Mrs Caroline Peel, presented Mark Birch, Operations Manager of the Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat with a cheque for £2,100 at the Broadway Centre recently. Katrina said:...

The Edminston and the UKSA are collaborating in order to support and encourage young people from minority communities to participate in outdoor and maritime activities. Edmiston and the UKSA are pleased to announce an important collaboration between Edmiston, one of...

Shanklin Theatre has been awarded £74.502 as part of the Government’s £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund (CRF) to help face the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and to ensure they have a sustainable future, the Culture Secretary has announced. Shanklin...

Local designer and artist Julie North recently presented the Island's High Sheriff Mrs Caroline Peel and Shanklin Mayor Steve Knight with a special stained glass window to celebrate National Libraries Week. The window, donated by Nova Construction, depicts poet and...

Thanks to basic life-saving skills, Paul Gould is alive and celebrating his 55th birthday and giving thanks to the people that came quickly to his aid.   On national Restart a Heart Day (16th October), Paul, from Ryde, recalls the moment he...

With many 5th November events cancelled this year, the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) is concerned that people will have bonfires at home to celebrate Guy Fawkes Night instead. To save hedgehogs and other wildlife from appalling suffering the BHPS...

West Wight Men In Sheds – a social inclusion project based in Totland – has been awarded a £2,000 grant from the B&Q Foundation. The charity is one of the first in the UK to receive a grant from the...

Wight Tri member, Adrian Heng took on the Hever Castle Olympic Distance Triathlon in freezing cold temperatures. Unfortunately due to the low temperatures that day, the swim was shortened to 800m. Due to the freezing cold water, Adrian got a...