Local Community News

Photo: All the Stations The duo behind an ambitious project to travel to all 2,563 national railway stations in Great Britain will be heading to the Isle of Wight later this month to document Island Line. Video producer Geoff Marshall and...

Amey’s Community Engagement team will be touring the Island’s libraries to answer your questions about maximising your recycling, reducing your waste and reusing objects in your home. Islanders are being invited along to one of the drop in sessions between...

From ammonites and iguanodons to palmate newts and a green tiger beetle, 100 million years of wildlife were uncovered and discovered at last week's Beach Bugs and Bones in Sandown. Around 200 people joined Arc and Artecology for this annual celebration,...

The hugely talented Electronic-indie 5 piece ‘Nakamarra’ and Beach Punk Trio ‘Reminders’ will be exclusively premiering their new singles live on BBC Radio Solent between 20:00 and 21:00 tonight (Saturday).  Both bands will feature on Stephanie Nieuwenhuy's BBC Introducing Solent show, which will broadcast...

An Island Roads employee will turn daredevil for a day to raise funds for the hospice that gave him life-saving care as a child. Luke Corbet, 28, hopes to raise £3,000 for Acorns Children’s Hospice, based in the West Midlands,...

The Isle of Wight's very own up and coming indie-rock band Avocado Sunrise have released their début single, 17. The teenage quartet, comprising of Jake Goodrum, Patrick Bray, George Lawrence and Finn Sandy, recorded the track in a bedroom using...

Dolls, books, scales and DVDs have all been purchased by the Friends of St Mary's for the NHS’s Children’s Services, which incorporates School Nursing and Health Visiting. 5 neonate dolls are now being used across the Island in ante-natal classes,...

Cowes RNLI's Atlantic 85 lifeboat, Sheena Louise, was rededicated by the station’s chaplain, the Rev Andrew Poppe, on Sunday to officially mark its return after undergoing a refurbishment. Besides undergoing a thorough overhaul at the East Cowes-based Inshore Lifeboat Centre, the...

13-year-old Lotty Green has been named 1 of the 2 winners of a national competition run by Stag Lane-based MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, advanced manufacturers of offshore wind turbines. MHI Vestas' 'Brand the Blades' competition was launched in February as...

Staff at St Mary's Hospital’s Pathology Department indulged in their own bake off exercise to thank the Friends of St Mary’s for now being able to relax in brand new chairs in their rest room.    So grateful were they for...