Local Community News

Isle of Wight youngsters are being invited to sign up to the council’s Isle Be Active junior cycle challenge, with a chance to win monthly prizes. The challenge has been organised by the council’s Sports Unit and runs from August...

The West Wight’s former local area co-ordinator (LAC), Adam Tucker, is the new West Wight community connector. Freshwater Parish Council, the Isle of Wight Council (IWC) and West Wight Sports and Community Centre (WWSCC) have worked together to create the...

90-year-old Francis Brett from Binstead This year’s Wight in Bloom Awards came to a climax on Tuesday when the presentation ceremony was held at the Green House in Ryde, the renowned energy-saving HQ of Liz Earle. Iain Griffiths, Chairman of...

Mountbatten has launched the search for a new Chair of its Board of Trustees, who will help ensure that no-one across the Isle of Wight or beyond faces death, dying or bereavement without the charity’s expert care and support. The...

Rhiannon-Mackay-Blake (11) as Matilda There was a standing ovation and not a dry eye in the house following Gurnard Primary School’s performance of Matilda The Musical at Medina Theatre last week. Over the past 3 months, staff and pupils at...

A 3.5 metre juvenile Tyrannosaurus Rex is ready to meet visitors at Dinosaur Isle, Sandown. The museum is playing host to the summer visitor, a replica juvenile T. rex skeleton, on loan from local fossil collector, Barry Gibson. The model...

With temperatures expected to soar once again this week, thousands of Isle of Wight homes can expect to be on alert as the hot and humid weather provides fleas with the ideal conditions needed to multiply. Pets at Home is...

The fundraising efforts of a hairdresser from Freshwater have been much-welcomed by the volunteers at Freshwater Independent Lifeboat. Lifeboat crew member Ronan McCann recently joined Christina Toms in drawing the winner of a family weekend ticket for next month's The...

Mountbatten is reminding people across the Isle of Wight that its bereavement services are open to anyone who has experienced a death, no matter when or how the death occurred. The Island’s charity has a team of expert counsellors and...

The Friends of Shanklin Theatre's Grand Prize Draw took place during a recent Coffee, Cake and Chat morning. Mr John Lee from Northwood was the winner of £400, who was presented a cheque by ticket sellers Wendy Bliss and Jean...