Local Community News

Since the Rock Challenge and J Rock heats, three local Island schools have spent the last few months finalising their performances and will this week travel to Portsmouth Guildhall to compete in the prestigious Southern J Rock and Rock Challenge...

If you’re lucky, you’ll have already spotted one of the Island’s most iconic birds overhead as spring unfurled into summer… the swifts have returned to nest. UK populations of swifts have declined at an alarming rate, in part the result...

Seven very special apple trees were planted recently at the new riverside development Abbey Mews with the help of the Isle of Wight College’s horticulture department, local ecologist from Arc Consulting, Ian Boyd, Paul Creer and developers David Wilson Homes. ...

Students from three local colleges have undertaken special projects relating to this year’s Isle of Wight Festival. All the students attend one of the Island Innovation Federation (IFF) Colleges- Carisbrooke College, Medina College or VI Form College. With Solo as...

Carisbrooke Castle, Appuldurcombe House and Osborne House are featured among the ghost-hunter case files of Isle of Wight psychic Margo Williams in a new book, Ghost Encounters Royals & Rogues. Royalty and roguery are the subjects for keen debate this...

A businessman from the Isle of Wight has featured in Sendible’s social media interview series. Paul Magee, 27, the Founder and Managing Director of Newport based Social Heroes, has featured on the blog of the global company, Sendible, after being...

The Prince’s Trust Team One, working in partnership with Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service, are requesting help from the Island community to help finish an ambitious renovation project in aid of Age UK Isle of Wight. The group of 16...

A teenager from the Isle of Wight who is studying blacksmithing at Chichester College’s Brinsbury campus is hoping his creation will catch the judge’s eye at this year’s Young Craftsman of the Year Award at the South of England Show....

Have you been issued with a set of crutches and not returned them? Island residents are being asked to search their homes and return any pairs of crutches or any other items of NHS equipment that is no longer needed,...

Briddlesford Lodge Farm, Wootton was the venue for two events over the past weekend. On Saturday Briddlesford Hop Kilns Gallery and Heritage Museum was proud to present the start of 'The Farmer’s Clock', an exhibition of work by artist Joanne...