Local Community News

The Isle of Wight Council's public health service is encouraging families on the Island to get active as part of a national scheme.  The government's Change4Life project has launched the '10 Minute Shake-up' scheme which aims to encourage children to...

The Isle of Wight Council  has welcomed a parliamentary order signed by Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles that allows the media and public to film and digitally report from all public meetings of local government bodies.  With social and digital media growing increasingly...

Over the next two weeks the Island’s MP, Andrew Turner, will be visiting many Island towns and villages carrying out his mobile Summer Surgery. The programme gives Island people the opportunity to talk to their MP about any concerns or...

A yellow weather warning for heavy rain has been issued by the Met Office for later today (Tuesday). Heavy rain is expected to spread from the southwest this evening, affecting many areas overnight before clearing early on Wednesday morning. 20-40mm...

Wightlink Captain Tom Vincent and his crew of volunteer staff have raised £5,000 for Ryde Inshore Rescue by paddling a spare rescue boat more than five miles across the Solent from Portsmouth Harbour to Ryde Pier Head. They secured sponsorship...

A seminar in Newport later this month will give Islanders the chance to question two people who play a key role in providing local dental services. Health and social care watchdog Healthwatch Isle of Wight is organising the seminar at...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight NHS Trust are advising members of the public that there is currently an equipment failure of the hospital's analogue phone system. Anyone telephoning direct to clinic areas or wards will not be able to get through due...

Lesley Myland, who has already made her mark as a leading volunteer with the RNLI on the Island, is the new chairman of the Friends of St Mary’s Hospital. Her appointment, in succession to Geoff Banks, was approved by the...

The five-strong crew aboard a yacht named Exocet were rendered completely harmless to fellow Cowes Week racers yesterday (Saturday) when they suddenly discovered their rudder had broken off. As the 21ft yacht tossed and turned in a heavy swell from Gurnard...

Senior managers at Wightlink met holidaymakers from all over the world and local residents at their latest Meet the Managers event on Ryde Pier on Thursday. Travellers from Norway, Russia, Canada and Colombia who had used Wightlink’s Portsmouth-Ryde catamarans to...