Local Community News

The Lord-Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight, Major General Martin White, has taken up a new role as Vice President of local conservation organisation Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. Major General Martin White was born, raised and educated...

The firearms licensing team on the Isle of Wight is saying goodbye to a long standing member of their team today (Wednesday). Keith Wood joined Hampshire Constabulary in 1974, and has served as a firearms enquiry officer on the Island...

Melissa Hewison from Ryde has been honoured for the high standards of customer service at her Elite School of Swimming after impressing the judges of the regional Venus Awards for women in business. The Customer Service category was sponsored by...

News that Jason Hughes had become a qualified helm of Cowes RNLI lifeboat was greeted with a resounding cheer at the station’s crew night. The final hurdle in his elevation from ordinary crew member to lifeboat commander was a thorough...

Sainsbury's Newport is donating a number of children’s games as Christmas raffle prizes for local primary schools this year. Colleagues from the Foxes Road store will be visiting primary schools across the Isle of Wight next week. Jodie Harry, PR Ambassador...

Age UK Isle of Wight has launched the 'Living Well' approach, a new holistic way of supporting people to live well and maintain independence through early prevention and self-help, informing and empowering people to take positive steps to manage their...

Do you have a Will, or does it need updating? That is the important question Islanders are being asked as Earl Mountbatten Hospice launches Make a Will Month (November 2017). Making a Will is one of the most important things...

A collaboration of 3 coaching and training companies (Coralesce, Altered Dawn and Symmetry Coaching) are celebrating after securing sustainable transport funding from the Isle of Wight Council. The funding award follows the launch of the Active Travel Innovation Grant Fund...

Ray Harrington-Vail is well known on the Isle of Wight for his work with the Footprint Trust, but now he has been recognised by a university as an Honorary Master. Ray's work in helping those in fuel poverty was first...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has received £30,100 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project which will involve preserving and digitising a unique collection of glass plate negatives by Beken of Cowes of lifeboats built in...