Local Community News

VIDEO: Island Occupational Therapists will be highlighting their work during Occupational Therapy Week 2015 which runs from Monday 2nd to Sunday 8th November. Occupational Therapists work with people of all ages – babies, children, adults and older people – to...

A special ‘field of remembrance’ will once again be opened to the public at Carisbrooke Castle next month (November) to commemorate those in the uniformed services who lost their lives in service of their country. The field was introduced in...

In a letter to the Island’s MP this week Post Office Limited have stated that the current facility in Marks and Spencer’s car park will be closing on 12th November and that the new facility, which will be sited in Cowes...

All households across Island are to receive information about how they can stay well this winter as part of the national ‘Stay Well This Winter’ campaign. The national household drop of an 8-page pamphlet is being made between 26th October...

Leading first aid charity St John Ambulance is urging everyone to learn some basic first aid skills ahead of the Bonfire Night celebrations.  St John Ambulance volunteers will be attending almost 250 firework events across the region so anyone who...

A record number of runners completed the Great South Run on Sunday on behalf of Cowes-based charity, the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust - including 14 from the Isle of Wight. Raising over £16,000, the efforts of the charity's team of...

A student from the Isle of Wight has won a £1,000 scholarship for outstanding academic achievement at the University of Worcester. Edward Knight, from Albany Road in Newport, who previously attended Isle of Wight College, was presented with the scholarship...

Pupils from the St Thomas’ Catholic Primary School in Canterbury recently won a school trip to the Isle of Wight worth more than £6000 in a nationwide competition. The ‘Big School Trip’ competition was created by Isle of Wight based Education Destination which...

Seth Dibben, 4 with Mason Hooper, 6 Over 300 people took part in a lantern trail through Newchurch on Thursday which allowed local people of all ages to learn about and explore the nocturnal wildlife that lives in and around Martin’s...

Just like the risk of insecurities risings in warmer weather, the darker evenings bring their own issues often increasing opportunities for homes to be left in darkness during the late afternoon and early mornings whilst householders are still at work....