Local Community News

A fantastic £3,000 has been raised for The Fire Fighters Charity thanks to clothing banks located at fire stations across the Island. Islanders have been giving generously over the past year to help sick and injured firefighters and the families...

Special safety checks carried out the day before the Round the Island Race indicated that many lifejackets aboard yachts may not be as effective as their crews assumed. On Friday (6th July), Cowes RNLI Lifeboat Station teamed up with sports...

HTP Apprenticeship College held their graduation ceremony last week, to celebrate the achievements of its apprentices on both sides of the Solent. This year, the event was held at the end of June at the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth....

The Royal Isle of Wight County Show, one of the biggest and best days out in the Island's event calendar, took place on the hottest day of the year yesterday (Sunday). As the temperature soared into the low 30s thousands...

A total of £772 has been raised for Girlguiding Isle of Wight as part of the Red Funnel Bicycle Island cycle path challenge. Throughout the month of June, Islanders were invited to ride between the 2 towns of Newport to...

Chris Van Wyk with the honeycomb It’s not unusual in Ryde to be woken up by the sound of birds singing or even England fans singing, but when local resident Caroline Diamond woke up on Friday morning she heard a...

Primary school children from The Bay CE Primary School in Sandown joined Chelsea Pensioners at the Hampton Court Flower Show in London on Tuesday to honour Britain’s parks, gardens and grounds staff who died in the First World War. They...

Volunteers from Island Roads have helped a community project to improve access to Chillerton Village Hall. Under Island Roads’ volunteering programme in which staff are encouraged to take two paid days a year to assist local community projects, an Island...

Members of the Ryde branch of The Royal British Legion are to join thousands on a pilgrimage of Remembrance to World War One battlefield that culminates in a parade and ceremony in Ypres as part of the end of the...

The Brading Community Archive Group has received £45,700 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting 2-year project entitled 'Unlocking Our Vaults', which will collect and make available on a community archive website the rich legacy of heritage held...