Local Community News

L-R: Library chief fundraiser Liz Mitchell and fellow volunteer Ann Worwood Christmas came early for Bembridge Community Library last Saturday when visitors, users and supporters joined volunteers for the venue's seasonal coffee morning and fayre. The morning was, as ever,...

A bumper haul of Christmas selection boxes are to be donated to 2 local charities to help less fortunate children on the Isle of Wight this Christmas. Louise Nicholls from Wootton has collected over 200 chocolate selection boxes as part...

Osborne House was the setting for a special Christmas event over the weekend when Victorian Christmas was held. Thousands of people visited the site and with ‘Car Park Full’ signs up early in the day, English Heritage laid on mini...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is issuing an urgent reminder to people in Hampshire to opt in to receiving communications from the lifesaving charity, before a new approach is adopted next year. From 1st January 2017, the RNLI will be...

Local groups and organisations with great ideas to make their communities an even better place to live are now invited to apply for funding to turn their ideas into reality. People’s Health Trust has just launched Active Communities in Hampshire,...

Wightlink's Brian Cowser, who works in the ticket office at Fishbourne, has been awarded the company’s Extra Mile award for helping to save a passenger’s life at the terminal. Brian sprung into action with the terminal’s defibrillator on hearing that...

KissyPuppy has this week received a £250 donation from Yarmouth Tyres after the company pledged to hand over a cheque once they hit 1,000 Facebook likes. The Gas Works Lane-based company announced via their Facebook page that once they hit...

Mark King with the recipe book / Photo: Suzanne Whitewood An Isle of Wight recipe book, compiled by the Taste of Wight team who produce a guide to food and drink on the Island, has been launched this week. A...

5 Isle of Wight children have picked up a top prize at this year’s Southern Water Learn to Swim Achiever Awards. The children were some of a select few to have been nominated for an award by their swimming teacher...

Cerise Moody from Lake has been awarded the Queen’s Guide Award, the highest attainable award for members of the Girlguiding movement. Presentations of her badge and certificate were made by Patricia Partridge, Girlguiding IW's President at the special ceremony held...