Local Community News

26 children from across the Isle of Wight recently joined The Royal Life Saving Society for their 'Rookie Lifeguard Week', gaining vital skills that could pave the way for a career as a lifeguard. Each year, the RLSS welcomes children...

Your diet can impact your body in some pretty surprising ways. A good diet can improve your health from head to toe (and everywhere in between, as you will shortly find out), so it is important to make sure that...

Islanders are being encouraged to ‘get online’ by Bob Seely after the MP visited a digital drop-in session last week, run by Age UK Isle of Wight. Bob met with Age UK’s Dan Taylor to hear more about the Digital...

Bob Dylan, who headlined the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival at Woodside Bay, is the subject of the latest exhibition at Dimbola Museum & Galleries at Freshwater Bay. This mixed media show has been curated by Ray Foulk, 1 of...

Home-Start Isle of Wight is looking for 10 volunteers from Ryde or Newport who’d like to help those who need extra support with parenting – ‘because childhood can’t wait’. The organisation supports families on the Island coping with issues such...

End2End – an exhilarating cycling challenge across the Isle of Wight – is back for 2019. The on and off-road ride, held in aid of Mountbatten, returns on 22nd September with 3 routes available to suit cyclists of all abilities....

A collection of stunning artwork, which shows the beauty of the Isle of Wight, its coastline and some of its birdlife, is on public display at Mountbatten Hospice. The artist, Christina Phillips, is also currently on placement at Mountbatten as...

The Chale Show is well known for its generosity in supporting charities. This year there was a special floral art class in the horticultural competition, with a 'Young Lives vs Cancer' class using the CLIC Sargent's colours of pink, black...

The Rotunda at Northwood House was officially re-opened by Lora Peacey-Wilcox, Mayor of Cowes, during the world-famous Cowes Week Regatta last Monday (12th August). The project to restore and protect this iconic Georgian building, which was built in 1838, was...

There was a good turnout of visitors to the Bembridge RNLI Lifeboat Station on Saturday for the charity's annual Open Day. Over 1,100 people visited the station throughout the day, inspecting the inshore and all-weather lifeboats and enjoying the entertainments...