Local Community News

As Christmas fast approaches The Food Standards Agency has prepared some easy-to-follow tips to help ensure you have a happy and healthy Christmas period. While 43% of people feel that buying presents is the main worry at Christmas, cooking Christmas dinner...

Sainsbury’s West Cowes are holding a blanket drive and are encouraging Islanders to donate blankets for the Isle of Wight's homeless shelter. Islanders can drop their unwanted blankets into the West Cowes store until Monday 30th November in time for...

St John Ambulance, the nation’s leading first aid charity, has teamed up with the Island Echo to bring you some simple, but life saving, first aid tips . This week: dealing with swallowed poisons. Chemicals that are swallowed may harm...

On 20th December - less than 5 weeks away - runners will be descending on Portsmouth for the annual Coastal Marathon, which is this year sponsored by south-coast law firm, Irwin Mitchell. Ruth Johnson, a serious injury lawyer at Irwin Mitchell’s...

Islander Sarah Toplass is set to have her blonde locks shaved off for charity next month by wildlife celebrity, Chris Packham. Sarah is raising funds for Cancer Research UK - and Barnardo's - after her granddad was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer recently....

A new art gallery at the Earl Mountbatten Hospice is continuing to attract interest from local talent keen to display their work while supporting patient care on the Island. So far the Hospice has hosted two exhibitions, the first displaying...

'Absolutely Fantastic' was the reaction of Mark and Kathryn Grimes on realising that the Concert held at St Savoir's Church in Shanklin on Saturday had raised an incredible £1100 for The Brain Tumour Charity. Mark, a firefighter based at Ryde,...

A new Isle of Wight loyalty card has been launched, rewarding Islanders for shopping locally with discounts and special offers at participating businesses. Over 50 Island businesses on board with The Wight Choice scheme, with that number growing weekly. The Wight...

Red Funnel is celebrating the end of a successful year of fundraising for Cowes-based charity UKSA, which has helped give over 1,000 Isle of Wight schoolchildren the opportunity to get out on the water and try their hands at sailing. Staff...

Korean War Veteran Mick Furnell and his wife Mavis have raised an incredible £7486 in a 2-week period as Poppy Appeal collectors at Sainsbury’s in Newport. The husband and wife team were in store from 26th October to 7th November...