Local Community News

More than 740 people turned up to seek important careers and jobs advice at the Your Future event staged at the Isle of Wight College, Newport. Organisers have heralded the annual event as playing a vital and continuing role in...

The Isle of Wight Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is setting up an Isle of Wight Maternity Service Liaison Committee (MSLC) which will act as a voice for the people who use maternity services on the Isle of Wight. It is...

The Isle of Wight Foodbank, which supports people in crisis, looks set to be granted a new five year lease by the Isle of Wight Council. The foodbank has operated from the council-owned former Love Lane Primary School site in...

Fireworks are set to take to the skies tonight (Wednesday) for the annual 5th November celebrations, with a number of events taking place across the Island. In Arreton it's not fireworks that will be an attraction, with a large bonfire set...

The Island’s MP, Andrew Turner, expressed concern this week that of the 3.5 million British people living abroad who are entitled to register to vote, only 30,768 people are actually on the register.  Last Thursday in the House of Commons...

With Movember underway across the Island and throughout the UK, a team from Yarmouth that raised £650.00 last year for Men’s Health are at it again. Those at The Wheatcheaf in Yarmouth who were so successful last year hope to better...

Well over one thousand people visited Cowes Heritage’s latest exhibition, ‘Decade of Change., 1910-1920’, staged for nearly three weeks at Cowes Combined Club’s Regatta House. Chairman John Groves said: “Although we felt it important we covered the Great War in...

Due to essential maintenance to Wightlink's Wight Ryder I catamaran, the cross-Solent service will be disrupted tomorrow (Wednesday). A frequent service will be operated with both Wight Ryder II and a charter vessel,  with Wight Ryder II operating on sailings at 15 minutes...

More than 30 community and voluntary groups have applied for funding under a new grant scheme launched by the Isle of Wight Foundation. The Foundation, funded jointly by Ringway Island Roads, Meridiam, Fondation d’enterprise VINCI pour la Cité and VINCI...

Hundreds of poppies representing Ryde residents who died in the First World War are being made to go on display at Ryde Cemetery.  As part of commemorations of the Great War, 500 poppies are being made by volunteers that will...