Local Community News

Children across the Isle of Wight can help break a world record as part of the annual Summer Reading Challenge. The annual event, which encourages children to read various books over the summer holidays, is themed around record breakers this...

Sustainable Marine Energy’s (SME) PLAT-O has become the first tidal energy system to generate power off the south coast of England near to Yarmouth and in doing so, SME has demonstrated that the cost of tidal energy is rapidly coming...

Family and friends joined Islander Phyllis Reading for her 90th birthday celebrations at the Garfield Methodist Church Hall in Ryde on Saturday. Phyllis reached the grand old age of 90 on 1st July and thoroughly enjoyed her party, where there were games...

Hundreds of schoolchildren on the Isle of Wight will be looking for the answer to the perennial question “Is there anything out there” at a three-day science festival on the Island next week. Big Bang @ Isle of Wight, to be...

Many of the 19 members of Cowes RNLI lifeboat crew and shore crew who passed the RNLI’s rigorous casualty care course have received their certificates from the Island’s Lord Lieutenant, Major General Martin White. The course, spread over three full...

The Island’s amazing intertidal marine life was celebrated last Saturday at Crab & Ships, a rockpooling day with a difference. Arc Consulting ran the free event at Bembridge Forelands to help with a nature element for this year’s ‘Festival of...

Under the NHS Constitution all patients have a right to choose which hospital they would like to attend to have their operation and over the last six months Island patients have been offered the opportunity to have their scheduled operations...

Island businesses have been given the opportunity to hear more about the Highways PFI and what it means for the local economy at two briefing sessions held by Island Roads. Members of the IW Federation of Small Businesses and the...

Southern Vectis was on hand to support this year’s Bloodstone Border Morris Rally, providing buses to transport the dancers and their friends and family during the event.  The rally, in aid of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, saw...

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust Membership team were successful in recruiting nearly 300 new members to the Trust during the Isle of Wight Festival this year. The team were located at the Welfare tent alongside colleagues from IRIS (Island Recovery...