Local Community News

Isle of Wight Carers are celebrating after receiving a £3,654 grant from the Comic Relief Fund to purchase 24 slow cookers, as well as provide budgeting and cooking training for an increasing number of carers. The first group to benefit...

Isle of Wight-based Lauran Hibberd is set to release a new EP via Ditto Music in May. The ‘Favourite Shade Of Blue’ EP, to be released on 12th May, is the follow up to last year’s debut release ‘The House I Built When I Was Small’...

2 Island businesses flew the flag for the Isle of Wight recently when they exhibited their produce at one of the South of England’s largest Catering shows. Held at the Bournemouth International Centre (BIC), both the Island businesses had their...

Southern Vectis is marking English Tourism Week by calling on local people and visitors to get out and enjoy all the spectacular scenery and attractions the Island has to offer. The bus operator is supporting the initiative, which runs from...

Spinlock recently hosted 75 pupils from Lanesend Primary School at their production site on Three Gates Road in Cowes, as part of the school's term topic, 'Made on the Isle of Wight'. The children followed the flow of materials from...

The culmination of a 9-year project has been unveiled in Church Litten this week. Cllr Jones-Evans officially opened the youth shelter area on behalf of Newport Parish Council with representatives from the Safer Neighbourhoods Team, the Lord Louis Library and...

It took a mammoth effort to help Gurnard Pre-School settle in 2 prehistoric newcomers this week. The pre-school has become home to 2 replica dinosaurs, a 4-metre long Sauropod and a Triceratops who arrived on Tuesday at the end of...

A Totland parish have raised over £520 by coming together and eating simply, in a bid to help transform communities around the world as part of the aid agency Catholic Agency For Overseas Development’s Lent campaign. Across March, parishioners from...

Red Nose Day is back on our screens this Friday and ahead of the big night, colleagues at Sainsbury’s West Cowes are calling on the public to show their support for Comic Relief. Customers can still pick up one of...

A total of 118 from across the Isle of Wight accessed vital cancer advice and support in 2016, thanks to the Macmillan Mobile Cancer Information service. The Macmillan mobile information bus – affectionately known as Bertie – has been parked...