Local Community News

Isle of Wight Shopmobility has helped 100 people through their free training in the use of mobility scooters. The milestone was marked by Councillor Julie Jones-Evans who spent time in Newport on Friday (3rd March) experiencing the challenges faced by mobility scooter users...

Volunteers from Island Roads have backed a campaign to get half a million people out and about cleaning up their local communities in March 2017. Organisers of the Great British Spring Clean hope the initiative will be an annual one...

Members of the NFU have met with Wightlink to emphasise how an affordable ferry service is vital to Island farmers. Wightlink Chief Executive Keith Greenfield recently met Isle of Wight NFU members at Kemphill Farm near Ryde, home of beef...

A busy Newport footpath has been resurfaced to the relief of local residents, hundreds of school children and dog-walkers after 2 councillors backed calls for action to sort out the 'swamp' that they said it had become. The Purdy Road...

The New Carnival Company, in partnership with the Isle of Wight Music Hub and Indian cultural organisation T-HOP, are looking for school and youth vocal groups to join together to create 1000 voice strong choral presentation on Mardi Gras day,...

The Motivational Preparation College for Training (MPCT) group, which helps young Islanders to build life skills, self-confidence and physical fitness through an ‘active learning’ approach, scooped the top prize at the Times Education Supplement (TES) Further Education Awards 2017. The presentation...

Pauline Vincent is leading 3 teams from the Isle of Wight to drive through Europe for the Monte Carlo or Bust Rally, which sees around 75 vehicles, each purchased for £500 or less, travel to Monte Carlo via France, Switzerland and Italy. The...

The Earl Mountbatten Hospice is taking the opportunity, during National Lymphoedema Awareness Week (5th-11th March 2017), to highlight that the Isle of Wight’s Lymphoedema Service is available to anyone who has a GP. The service is based at the hospice and...

The second summit of the Isle of Wight Student Forum was held at Ryde School with Upper Chine on Tuesday (28th February), where students spent the day improving their skills and developing their plans for how they want to see education...

Southern Water is celebrating 25 years of its Learn to Swim scheme, which has helped the likes of Mike Goody, who returned from last year’s Invictus Games with 4 gold medals. Since its introduction in 1992, the Learn to Swim...