Local Community News

The Isle of Wight's very own 5-piece band 'Plastic Mermaids' have self-produced one of the most genuinely original and sonically adventurous debut albums you’ll hear all year. ‘Suddenly Everyone Explodes’ is to be released on 24th May 2019 via Rob Da Bank's...

8-year-old Ellis Yeats was VIP for the day when Wightlink’s oldest ship St Cecilia sailed across the Solent for the last time on Friday. The youngster from Gosport is Wightlink’s greatest fan. He lives life to the full despite undergoing...

Jack Lowe, Michael Spender, Joe Williams and Hayley Whiting at the launch. Photo: RNLI/Nathan Williams A ground-breaking new RNLI photography exhibition featuring the work of Beken of Cowes has opened at Poole Museum in Dorset. Calm Before the Storm: The...

2 local women, who are experts in working with people who are vulnerable, have joined The Salvation Army’s homelessness support unit team on the Isle of Wight. Rachel Lee is the organisation’s new Homelessness Services Unit operations manager and has...

Local organisations working to tackle social exclusion once again have an opportunity to apply for grant funding from the Isle of Wight Foundation. Each year the foundation - which is jointly funded by Ringway Island Roads, Meridiam, VINCI Concessions and...

An exhibition of paintings by local painter, Jayne Bouman, is on display in the Full Circle Exhibition space at St Mary’s Hospital to help raise awareness of the little known condition, PANDAS - Paediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal...

Age UK Isle of Wight are working with local legal firms to offer all Island residents over the age of 50 a discounted Will Writing Service throughout March 2019. It is important to make a will for many reasons; by...

After almost a year of fundraising the team at The Travellers Joy in Northwood have raised enough money to purchase a life-saving defibrillator. Pete, Sam and the rest of the team are this week thanking everyone who has helped raised...

An Isle of Wight Councillor has pledged support and action for those living with cerebral palsy. Councillor Chris Whitehouse (Conservative, Newport West Ward) has signed a campaign card for Action Cerebral Palsy at a recent briefing in the Palace of...

Isle of Wight-based chef, Robert Thompson, is joining P&O Cruises' flagship Britannia in June as a guest chef as part of the cruise line’s ‘Friends of the Cookery Club’ programme. During the cruise, Thompson will serve up some of the...