Local Community News

The Earl Mountbatten Hospice's Ventnor store is set to reopen this lunchtime (Saturday) after undergoing a refurbishment. Staff have been busy helping to refurbish the hospice shop in Pier Street, which will be officially re-opened at midday today. The hospice's...

A new programme providing weekly singing sessions, tailored specifically for those experiencing breathlessness due to COPD - Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and other respiratory conditions will be running for the next eight months funded by the Isle of Wight Clinical...

The next meeting of the Isle of Wight NHS Trust Board is set to be held on Wednesday (29th October) at 09:30 in the Conference Room at St. Mary’s Hospital. Members of the public are welcome to attend and papers...

To avoid a fright this Halloween, Southern Water is asking people to treat their toilets and not trick them by flushing away the wrong things. Ghastly items such as wet wipes, plasters and cotton buds should all be put in...

Cory Williams, Operations Director at Medina Foodservice, has had the rare opportunity to get behind the scenes at The Royal’s 2AA Rosette kitchen. Shadowing Head Chef Steven Harris and his team across a typical split shift, he was invited to get...

Island residents are being encouraged to help shape the council’s spending and priorities for the year ahead – by taking part in an online budget survey launched on the iwight.com website. The survey - which can be found at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/budget_engagement...

The Isle of Wight, with its three high-profile RNLI lifeboat stations, is very much the heartland of the charity declared the RNLI's Chief Executive, Paul Boissier, speaking at the annual meeting of the Isle of Wight Lifeboat Board held at...

10 of the world’s best ice climbers took on the challenge of ascending sheer cliffs of chalk – one of the most difficult materials to climb – as the first ever Red Bull White Cliffs competition came to the Isle...

A grand tree in Rylstone Gardens, believed to be hundreds of years old, has fallen after strong winds battered the Island. Much to the sadness of locals, the tree was found on its side yesterday morning (Tuesday) with its roots...

UPDATED: Wightlink's catamaran service is set to be disrupted tomorrow (Wednesday) due to a technical problem. The 06:40 sailing from Portsmouth to Ryde Pier Head has been cancelled with the 07:10; 08:10 and 09:10 from Ryde being operated by a charter...