Local Community News

Portraits drawn by patients at Sevenacres Mental Health Unit are on display at the Full Circle Exhibition Space at St Mary’s Hospital. The portraits are part of therapy led by local artist, Brooke Engledow. Brooke came to making self-portraits when...

Isle of Wight author Carolyn McCrae has published her latest book - a historical novel that takes one of Europe’s most enduring figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, and gives his fate a new twist. 'A Set Of Lies' takes the alternate history that...

Queen Victoria’s Durbar room at Osborne House has re-opened for the new season after conservation work to return this grand space to its original use as the banqueting hall of her Isle of Wight home. Inspired by photographs from the...

HTP Training held their fourth Graduation Ceremony last Thursday at Albert Cottage Hotel in East Cowes. The event, attended by the Isle of Wight Lord Lieutenant Major General Martin White, High Sheriff Claire Locke and the Leader of the Isle...

A team from the University of Kent's Sailing and Windsurfing club are to sail from Kent to Poole stopping at six RNLI stations along the way - including on the Isle of Wight. As part of Kent University's 50th anniversary,...

After two months of intensive research and development, a group of year nine pupils from Sandown Bay Academy have witnessed the first flight of their working prototype radio-controlled hovercraft with the help of Red Funnel staff. Red Funnel chief officers...

A new exhibition on the Isle of Wight tells of the hundreds of First World War shipwrecks lying just off our shores. Remains from the Great War lie, largely hidden and unknown, just off our south coast shores. Many are...

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Freemasons last week presented a cheque for £4,000 to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA).  The presentation was made by the Assistant Provincial Grand Master of the Hampshire and Isle of Wight...

Christ’s Hospital school in Horsham, West Sussex has announced a new scholarship for pupils entering the school from the Isle of Wight. The Queen Victoria Scholarship, for bright pupils from the Island with academic potential, who would benefit from an independent boarding...

Two weekend Bestival tickets are up for grabs for the best fancy dress costume at this years’ 25th anniversary Walk the Wight. The winning costume will have to be pretty special though, as entrants will be scrutinised and judged by...