Local Community News

With thousands of visitors expected to flock to the countryside from this weekend as tourism businesses across England reopen, the Country Land and Business Association (CLA) is urging people to follow the Countryside Code during their visit. The Countryside Code...

Local gamers Matt Russell and Luke Butcher will be taking part in a 24-hour live stream, complete with on-camera forfeits, to raise funds for Great Ormond Street Hospital. The duo, better known as B4ldyL0cks and BucketHandLuke, have in the past...

A fundraising cycling app which encouraging cycling on the Island's Red Squirrel Trail has hit a major milestone. Since its launch in 2018, PedalAid mobile app users have clocked up 50,000 kilometres — equal to 1-and-a-quarter laps of the world....

Students from Platform One College of Music on the Isle of Wight have recorded a charity song in lockdown to thank key workers, including NHS staff, for all their efforts during the COVID-19 outbreak. The Newport-based college teamed up with...

Island organisations are being invited to take part in this year’s UK Parliament Week - an annual festival that aims to engage local people with the UK Parliament. The event, which aims to strengthen democratic links between communities and their...

A homeless artist is to auction a stunning 170cm carving of a narwhal tusk to raise money for a West Wight charity supporting vulnerable people throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. David Wallace, whose work will be shown at the Royal Academy...

Thousands of members of a regional co-operative took to the polls during lockdown which resulted in a donation of £2,630 to local causes affected by the pandemic. Southern Co-op holds an election every year for its members to vote people...

The Earl and Countess of Wessex have praised the work of the West Wight Coronavirus Support Hub this week. The hub helps those living in the rural West Wight with things like shopping, phone calls, hot meals and prescriptions. In...

Sandown will once again be entering the South & South East in Bloom competition, which for 2020 will be judged remotely. Alan Jones, Chair of Sandown Community Association and Christine Jackson, Chair of Sandown Green Town Volunteers have confirmed that...

For the second year running a student from CECAMM at The Isle of Wight College has won the national title of ‘BTEC Engineering Learner of the Year’. The College’s CECAMM facility in East Cowes opened in 2017 and continues to...