Local Community News

Forget about burning your bras - the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance are asking you to save them for recycling, in order to raise vital funds to keep the Air Ambulance flying and saving lives. Now in its...

Time Timer Clock The Isle of Wight Council's leisure centres have brought in new equipment to help young people and adults with autism and Asperger’s understand time perception. 'Time Timers' are types of clocks that have coloured graphic faces which...

This year’s Memorial Ploughing Match has raised a fantastic £5,400 for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice. Organisers and supporters of the annual event – held this year at New Wolverton Farm by kind permission of Professor and Mrs Williams – attended...

Primary schools on the Isle of Wight have been invited to design a key piece of equipment that will be used to begin races at the upcoming Pearl Izumi cycling tour series. Each school has been asked to design the start flag...

Hovertravel has brought their freight business back in house and rebranded the service as Hoverparcels, after several years of sub-contracting to third party freight specialists. Loretta Lale, Hovertravel's Commercial and Marketing Manager, said: "Our research showed that our customers wanted...

Wightlink is delighted to have been named the top ferry company in the country for using social media in the Social Travel Britain Awards 2015. The awards recognise excellence in the use of digital and social media in Britain’s domestic...

Two special information gathering exercises are being undertaken on behalf of the Isle of Wight Council from this week - to better understand where static mobile homes are being used as main homes, and to ascertain the status of empty...

Skaters of all abilities are being encouraged to join Skate UK lessons at Ryde Arena - the only community-owned ice rink in the country - commencing this weekend. It was announced this week that the Isle of Wight’s only ice...

Eight primary schools will battle it out to claim to have the best cycling team when the Pearl Izumi Tour Series arrives on the Island on Thursday 14th May. In between the main events on the day, part of the course...

Newport Parish Council have presented a cheque for £600 to WightSAR, the Island's volunteer search and rescue team. At a recent meeting, two members of the WightSAR team told Newport Parish Council that the organisations primary responsibility is to save life and consequently they...