Local Community News

Staff at Day Lewis Pharmacy in Carisbrooke held their annual charity day in aid of The Wight Brainy Bunch earlier this year, which raised an incredible £1,250. Customers were invited to buy raffle tickets with prizes kindly donated by local...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust Volunteers Service has received national recognition of their fantastic contribution to volunteering in the NHS. The local service, which is based at St Mary’s Hospital, has been shortlisted for an 'Innovation in Volunteering Award'...

St Helens Parish Council have marked National ‘Restart A Heart Day’ with the installation of a new defibrillator at the Duver. The Parish Council have invested £15,000 in upgrading the Duver public toilets, as well as additional amenities such as...

The modern concept of a workplace is now totally different from what the world used to know ten years ago. As we all wish to thrive in a digital era where everything is changing in the blink of an eye,...

Wightlink’s hybrid flagship Victoria of Wight has welcomed a smaller version on board. Ryde modelmaker Martin Stock has spent the last 9 months building a detailed model of the Portsmouth-Fishbourne car ferry that joined Wightlink’s fleet in 2018. Martin has...

Tom Dunnett, Dan Poole and Ben South from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service will be running The Great South Run on Sunday to raise money for a life-saving defibrillator for the local community. The trio have been training for...

Work has started at Ability Dogs 4 Young People’s Training Centre in Sandown, thanks to a generous legacy received this year. Anyone who has visited the Training Centre will know that it is an old aircraft hangar which was built...

Students and staff were pleased to support Mountbatten Hospice on Friday 4th October, as part of the annual ‘Go Yellow’ Day. Yellow clothing, hats and sunflowers were visible around the college, providing a glorious splash of colour, whilst raising much-needed funds...

The Isle of Wight's Starlight Boutique is celebrating success at the BDO South West Street Dance Championships in Chippingham. A large group of local dancers, aged 6 to 15, headed over to the mainland on Sunday 6th October. A fantastic...

Photo: Graham Reading Photography Celebrated Liverpool poet Brian Patten has written a poem to ‘Toxic Lady’, the latest sculpture by artist Clare Ralph Leonty made with radioactive uranium glass. The sculpture is of the torso of a woman sculpted in...