Local Community News

A new community service provider has opened its doors in Cowes offering day services and courses for vulnerable adults, as well as giving the opportunity for the wider local community to learn a new skill in wood carving and carpentry....

Campaigners fighting to save the Isle of Wight’s only ice-skating rink, Ryde Arena, will join hands and 'Link Around the Rink' in protest of the building’s closure at 10:30 on Saturday 6th October. This event will mark 2 years since the...

Despite the pouring rain and adverse conditions, dozens of guests turned up for Appley rockers Garry and Viv Willis’s charity gig on Saturday afternoon - Isle of Wight Day. Viv, who was also celebrating her 65th birthday, and Garry raised...

Some of Sandown's fascinating hidden heritage was revealed this month through Celebrating Sandown walks, workshops and open days run especially for this year’s Heritage Open Days. Thanks to help from a range of volunteers and organisations chipping in time and...

Stunning aerial videography captured in the skies above the Isle of Wight has revealed a side to the Island that many may never have seen before. Pete Heather of PH Imagery has released a short film entitled 'HoMe', which tells...

Staff and students at Nine Acres Primary School in Newport celebrated Isle of Wight Day in style on Saturday (22nd September). For this year's event the school decided to use a beach theme where children could come dressed in all things...

Bank accounts belonging to children in care on the Isle of Wight have been topped up by a fundraising Isle of Wight Council employee. Callum Tanner, 29, completed the gruelling Three Peaks Challenge – tackling the 3 highest mountains in...

Over 40 Red Funnel staff members and their families joined Islanders in taking part in the biggest-ever organised clean up of the Island's coastline at the weekend. Groups across the Isle of Wight battled the wet weather to mark Isle...

Over 100 guests gathered at the Quay Arts Centre on Friday for this year’s Wight in Bloom awards, celebrating Island horticultural excellence. Wight In Bloom’s Patron, celebrity gardener Alan Titchmarsh MBE VMH DL, presided over the ceremony, which took place...

Numbers of one of the UK’s best known garden butterflies have plummeted this summer despite the record-breaking hot weather, results from the Big Butterfly Count have revealed. The Small Tortoiseshell suffered its worst summer in the history of the Big...