Local Community News

St John Ambulance is calling for nominations for the St John Ambulance Everyday Heroes awards, supported by Physio Control. The awards are an annual star-studded event celebrating the nation’s life savers. After a record number of nominations last year, the...

South Boats IOW, the UK’s foremost manufacturer of state of the art Wind Farm Service Vessels (WFSV), has launched its first of class South Cat 22m named ‘Iceni Venture’ from Cowes for Iceni Marine Services Ltd. The Island based company...

The health and social care system on the Isle of Wight has been under pressure this winter but a variety of new schemes put in place by the Island’s multi agency System Resilience Group chaired by Isle of Wight Clinical...

Southern Vectis has teamed up with Hovertravel and National Express to offer passengers all-in-one tickets to travel from the Isle of Wight to destinations across the UK. Passengers will have the opportunity to buy tickets in towns across the Island...

The Isle of Wight Council hosted a business support event organised by the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) on Friday, focusing on the various funding programmes that are available to Island businesses through the Solent LEP. The event, which was chaired...

Island residents and those on the mainland with a view of Spinnaker Tower, Portsmouth will be able to view it in a blue light on 30th January thanks to Girlguiding IW’s Island Commissioner Deborah Meadows. At present Spinnaker Tower can...

Natural Enterprise and The Community Fund have launched a crowd funding campaign to fund an ambitious project which will control weed infestation in the Isle of Wight. Funding will support the Himalayan Balsam removal project on the Eastern Yar River...

A local business has been praised for giving community causes a window of opportunity. Ward House Mortgages and Life, on Union Street, Ryde, has for the past year offered local charities and good causes the use of its window space...

The popular car buying website Webuyanycar.com has opened it's first branch on the Isle of Wight, making the service more accessible to Islanders. The branch, which has opened at Prospect Road Business Park, Cowes, allows Island residents to sell their vehicles...

Four new pieces of exercise equipment are now available in Seaclose Park, Newport following a request to Cllr Mary Craven from older members of the community. Cllr Craven took the idea to the Newport Parish Council and, with the help...