Local Community News

Southern Vectis is making it easier than ever to travel on a Sunday in the run up to Christmas by offering customers a free return trip when they buy a single ticket on any Route 9 bus. Southern Vectis' communications manager,...

Independent Arts’ SingAbout Christmas song ‘Nobody Should be Alone at Christmas Time’ was featured on the BBC’s ‘The One Show’ yesterday evening (Wednesday) as an unlikely outsider for this year's Christmas number 1. Presenter Alex Jones pointed out statistically if everybody...

An aerial video, released by Island Echo, reveals the full scale of the Long Lane Christmas Lights display, which has been switched on for the 17th year running this week. This year's show of lights is raising funds for Ability Dogs 4 Young People and...

Unlimited, the arts commissioning programme delivered in partnership by Shape Arts and Artsadmin, which supports disabled artists to create and present exceptional work across all art forms, has announced the artists shortlisted for the third round of exceptional and ambitious arts...

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...