Local Community News

Stagecoach’s rail franchise South West Trains has picked up an award in this year’s Community Rail Awards for its work on the Isle of Wight, highlighting the transport group’s continued commitment to community involvement. The team picked up the second...

A section of a footpath in Gurnard that has been closed for nearly 2 years following land slippage, has been re-opened thanks to the generosity of a local landowner. The council was forced to close the section of the coastal...

For the next eighteen months, Solent business owners are invited to take advantage of a new fully funded specialist service, GetSet for Growth, thanks to funding from the Regional Growth Fund. Building on GetSet’s success supporting over 1,000 businesses in...

Local children’s’ charity Daisy Chains IW, which supports Island children with long-term health problems, serious life-limiting conditions and disabilities, is opening a cafe in Sandown for young children and their families. Kids Cafe in Sandown High Street will open its...

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: performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a child aged one to...

Historic Ventnor Park has been recognised with a top award for the second time in a month. John O’Conner Ltd (IW), which maintains the park under a partnership contract with the Isle of Wight Council, has received the Grounds Maintenance...

“Falling is not an inevitable part of growing older” was the message being promoted by staff and volunteers from a number of Island Organisations during Falls Awareness and Prevention Week 2015 last week. An enthusiastic team from the Isle of...

October is Tyre Safety Month and motorists on the Isle of Wight will be at the forefront of a campaign by a local garage that aims to take hundreds of dangerous and illegal tyres off the Island’s roads. Island Tyres,...

The Island’s MP, Andrew Turner, is concerned that over £3million is being needlessly paid out by Islander’s because of the practice by Insurance companies of auto-renewal. Price comparison website MoneySuperMarket have carried out some research which suggests that, nationally, auto-renewal...

Carers IW have been newly commissioned by the Isle of Wight Council, supported by the Isle of Wight CCG, as grantees for carer services offering  respite opportunities to carers, as well as support and signposting.  The first respite weekend was...