Local Community News

Participants in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, leaders from Newport Open Award Centre and West Wight Open Award Centre and some parents undertook the challenge of painting a large mural to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee of the Award recently. West...

The Hepatology service at St Mary’s Hospital is transforming the quality of life for people diagnosed with hepatitis C. With advances in medication and new technology now being used on the Island, patients diagnosed with the virus are able to...

A group of Cub Scouts on the Isle of Wight are being given help to achieve their badges by talking a lot about rubbish. Cubs from the 1st East Cowes Scout Group have received a waste and recycling education workshop....

The results from the annual Summer Reading Challenge are in! Over the summer holidays, the Isle of Wight Council’s library service set a challenge to island children: to read 6 books during the 6 week summer break. The Summer Reading Challenge runs...

A teacher from the Isle of Wight was inspired to run the Great South Run on Sunday to show solidarity with refugees around the world. Primary school teacher Kate Bakewell, who teaches at St Saviour’s Catholic Primary School in Totland,...

This year’s exhibition mounted by Cowes Heritage is entitled ‘The Development of Somerton Airfield’. Having previously used Regatta House in Bath Road, Cowes Media Centre off the pedestrianised High Street is now the venue for the annual event. 100 hundred years...

All the isolation side rooms in the Medical Assessment Unit at St Mary’s Hospital now have wall-mounted vital signs machines, thanks to the Friends of St Mary's. Although such machines were in 4 single-bed rooms, they were absent from the 4...

As part of a joint initiative between the NSPCC and O2, parents can now get online safety advice from a specially trained advisor known as an O2 Guru at the O2 store in Newport High Street. As schools break up for half-term children...

‘We’re not scary and we really don’t bite’ – that is the message from Earl Mountbatten Hospice’s shop managers as a recruitment drive is launched to find over 100 new retail volunteers this Halloween. A variety of customer-facing roles are...

The Isle of Wight Branch of the Worker's Educational Association (WEA) has recently moved home to Parkside Pavilion in East Cowes - the town where it all began. Classes began in East Cowes with a group of young mums and soon...