Local Community News

Wootton-based Care in the Garden is set to grow thanks to the support of the Isle of Wight Foundation. The not-for-profit compan,y which works to bring the community together by using gardening to help change lives, has just taken delivery...

In the first weeks of every new year, newspapers magazines and websites are full of articles encouraging its readers to try something different over the next twelve months. We are pushed towards taking up new hobbies, losing weight, getting fit,...

A team of 4 students from Christ the King College qualified for the national finals of 'Race for the Line', which took place at the Imperial War Museum at RAF Duxford this week. The ‘Race For The Line’ competition objective...

WightAID helped arrange a mid-week stay for one deserving Isle of Wight family recently after receiving an unexpected phone call from Nettlecombe Farm, who kindly offered a free stay during half-term in one of their quaint cottages on site. Nettlecombe...

A district nurse from the Isle of Wight NHS Trust has been awarded a top prize by the Queen’s Nursing Institute. Liane Worth, Associate Community Matron, has won the ‘Philip Goodeve-Docker’ memorial prize from the Queen’s Nursing Institute. The prize...

A specialist motor neurone disease (MND) clinic set up by Mountbatten is helping to reduce multiple appointments and giving patients quick and direct access to support under one roof. Every month, health and social care professionals from Mountbatten, Isle of...

Wightlink Chief Executive Keith Greenfield has presented a cheque for £500 to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in Yarmouth and seized his opportunity to look round the organisation’s impressive Severn-class lifeboat. The money was raised through sales of Wightlink’s...

WO1 (Conductor) Scott Warrant Officer Class One Neil Scott was 1 of 5 Royal Logistic Corps (RLC) Senior Soldiers to have been granted the position of Conductor, which is enshrined in Queens Regulations and endows those appointed with seniority within...

2 charities have worked together to raise £300 towards restoring the sails of Bembridge Windmill. Bembridge Men in Sheds and the Isle of Wight National Trust attended Bembridge Street Fair last month where they displayed and took orders for unique...

Island Roads has been given top marks after creating a new activity area at The Bay CE Primary School in Sandown. The PFI contractor, with its line-painting partner WJ South West, have marked out a series of activities at the...