Local Community News

This Easter saw McCarthy and Stone’s Silver Sands Court Retirement Living development open its doors to the Bembridge community, where retirees and their families were invited to hop along and take part in a chocolaty-filled Easter egg hunt and enjoy a...

The Isle of Wight Festival 2017 have partnered with Ventnor Exchange, in support of Record Store Day, to give away 5 pairs of weekend tickets to this year’s festival. Each pair of tickets will be hidden inside mystery records for lucky...

Over 400 members of the public attended the Open Day at Cowes RNLI lifeboat station on Easter Monday. With a dozen volunteers on hand – comprising members of the visits/education team and some crew members – the visitors had plenty...

Isle of Wight resident Rob Ashley is set to meet Royalty at the end of this weekend's London Marathon, which he is running in aid of the charity Young Minds and in memory of a close friend who committed suicide....

Shanklin's Jack Luscombe and David Williams have been thanked for their service to the town following an announcement that neither town councillor will be seeking re-election in next month's local elections. Cllr Luscombe has served on the Town Council for...

Zoe Sadler Friends Zoe Sadler and Krissy Lloyd are combining their skills in design and marketing, with their mutual love of books, to launch a small independent publishing press. Frustrated by how increasingly difficult it is for new authors to...

Members of a weekly group for older people are using the latest technology to keep in touch with faraway friends and family thanks to a grant from the Isle of Wight Foundation. Using iPads purchased with the grant money, the...

Sunshine Radio has gone online, increasing their reach from patients of St Mary’s Hospital to the rest of the Island and beyond. The station has received huge support from local companies in donations for studio refurbishment and in sponsorship, without...

Offenders carrying out Community Payback are on the right track after creating a new woodland path, which they named Churchill Wood, in Sandown Bay. Access to public land has been vastly improved thanks to a joint project between the Hampshire &...

Dozens of memories about 35 years of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice have been recalled during a 2-week tour of the Hospice’s 10 shops across the Isle of Wight. Earlier this year, the hospice received a lottery grant to produce 'Mountbatten...