Local Community News

The Island’s NHS Memory Service is supporting Dementia Awareness Week this week (18th-24th May) and raising awareness of dementia and the specialist support available to better enable people to live well with the condition. Dementia is a serious and progressive...

Island-based charity Challenge & Adventure have been donated 2 camping tickets by organisers of the Isle of Wight Festival 2015 to help raise as much money as possible to help disadvantaged and challenging young people on the Isle of Wight. A raffle...

Legendary athlete Paula Radcliffe has met Gemma Blamire - the mother of Sophie Rolf - and other inspirational women who are taking part in this year’s Morrisons Great South Run. The marathon star, who won the Great South Run in...

Island firm Inflight Peripherals’s rich product range and latest innovations were very much in demand at the recent AIX 2015 exhibition that took place in Hamburg, Germany. IFPL, who are based in Calbourne, had a record number of enquiries and...

In the lead up to the General Election, the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) was keen to engage with all Prospective Parliamentary Candidates (PPCs) in order to ensure that small businesses were a key consideration for the next Government. The...

Freshwater Bay has been selected as one of nine national seaside locations to stage a UK charity’s fundraising walk, thanks to Wightlink’s support to bring the event to the Isle of Wight. Wightlink is an official supporter of the Family...

Thousands of walkers from all walks of life turned out to support Earl Mountbatten Hospice on Sunday and take part in the 25th anniversary of Walk the Wight. There were spectacular scenes across the Island throughout the day, as walkers...

A company offering a luggage carrying service to Festival revellers are looking for volunteers to work this years Isle of Wight Festival, with a free wristband on offer in exchange for your time. Volunteers are required to work just 16...

PICTURE GALLERY: Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) Awards have celebrated the excellence in commissioning and primary care across the Island, with the awards presented in front of a three hundred strong audience at Cowes Yacht Haven late last month....

The Isle of Wight Council’s parks service in conjunction with grounds maintenance contractor John O’Conner Ltd invited the 8th Ryde Methodist Brownies, under the guidance of Caroline Seaward, to participate in the annual planting of bedding displays along Ryde Seafront...