Local Community News

The Southern Vectis Route 39 bus through Newport's Barton, Fairlee and Pan areas - a service popular with older residents - has been saved for the next 5 years thanks to Newport Parish Council. The service, which provides a link to...

Roger Pitcher, Chairman of myaware Isle of Wight, is thanking customers and staff at Sainsbury's in Newport for their generosity during a recent charity collection which raised £126.17. Myaware is the new working name for the Myasthenia Gravis Association, (MGA) which...

  The Isle of Wight NHS Trust has won the prestigious Healthcare Recycler of the Year title at the National Recycling Award 2015 which took place on 1st July in London. The National Recycling Awards recognise and highlight excellence and...

An Island patient has been awarded the Robert Lawrence medal for living with diabetes for 60 years.  David Savill from Cowes has been attending the Diabetes Centre at St Mary's Hospital for the past 40 years and receiving regular care....

A Summer Fair was held in Newport on Sunday to celebrate the transfer of Victoria Recreation Ground and Pavilion from the Isle of Wight Council to Newport Parish Council. The facility off Wilver Road near Carisbrooke has been secured as...

An Island group formed to oppose the reintroduction of fox hunting has set up a petition urging the Island's MP Andrew Turner not to vote for the hunting ban to be lifted. Last week, the Government announced that it would seek...

An Isle of Wight Councillor has this week hosted the annual reception of the All-Party Parliamentary Media Group in Westminster, at which Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, John Whittingdale OBE MP and Ofcom Chief Executive, Sharon White, hailed...

Seaside towns such as those on the Isle of Wight will have a chance to bid for £90m of government funding under measures announced by the Chancellor in Wednesday’s Budget. Ministers welcomed the extension of Coastal Communities Fund to 2020...

20-year-old Shellby-Kate Collins has ended her link with Cowes Lifeboat on, quite literally, a high note. In addition to surrendering her crew-member’s pager at her last training night at the station, she handed over £120 raised for the RNLI from...

The biggest event in Portsmouth this summer – and one of the most prestigious events in the world of sport – the Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series is just days away and some 250 volunteers are being geared up...