Local Community News

An awareness campaign to help keep farmers safe when working near power lines has been praised by the National Farmers’ Union (NFU). Working in partnership, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) and the NFU conveyed potential life-saving messaging to farmers...

L-R: Bob Seely MP., Sofie Bennet, Cait Allen (Wessex Cancer Trust) with Hovertravel's Neil Chapman Hovertravel has hosted a meeting to start a co-ordinated community effort to keep The Wessex Cancer Trust minibus service operating.  Since 2014 patients travelling across...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Community Foundation (HIWCF) has launched its Surviving Winter 2017/18 campaign, calling for people to donate their Government ‘Winter Fuel Payment’ if they are able, or to make a much-needed donation to help older and vulnerable...

Public Health England is urging parents whose children have not yet been vaccinated against flu to do so before the winter flu season begins. The vaccination programme already covers children in Reception, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 (aged...

Stroke care on the Isle of Wight is set to improve with the opening of a 4-bed Hyper Acute Stroke Unit at St Mary’s Hospital. Stroke is the third biggest killer in the UK and the leading cause of adult...

A team of occupational therapists from the Isle of Wight are raising the profile of their profession which supports people to ‘live life their way’, despite any health or care needs they may be living with. The event is as...

Yorkshire Building Society Charitable Foundation has said thanks a million to its members on the Isle of Wight who have contributed their own money to the more than £4million donated to help charities and good causes around the UK. The...

Storeroom2010 will take part in the first ever Buy Nothing New Day on 24th November 2017. As part of this national event, Cowes-based Storeroom2010 will be reaching out to our community and promoting Buy Nothing New Day, making sure all residents on...

Ryde's Labour Branch has expressed its strong objection to any commercial development of the Hersey Nature Reserve at Seaview. The land now known as Hersey Nature Reserve was acquired on by the Isle of Wight Council in 2002 on a...

A donation of thermos mugs to the Isle of Wight Pop-up Soup Kitchen should start to come in handy as the weather turns colder. Cross-Solent operator Hovertravel made the kind donation earlier this year to help support those worse off...