Local Community News

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...

A young family have escaped injury after an electrical fire broke out in the porch of their Gunville home yesterday evening (Monday). Contingency fire crews - turning out from Drill Hall Road in Newport - were called to the family...

Hovertravel are to run a shuttle service tomorrow (Tuesday) due to a technical problem. Arrivals and departures will occur as frequently as possible, but not to the standard timetable. The cross-Solent company are recommending customers allow additional time for their...

Locals are being invited to take part in the annual Earl Mountbatten Hospice Santa Dash next month, an event which sees hundreds of people dressed as Father Christmas take part in a sponsored fun run in Ryde. Around 400 people...

NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) from across Hampshire, Portsmouth, Southampton and the Isle of Wight are still keen to get your views about the provision of In-Vitro Fertilisation (IVF). The deadline for people wanting to comment on the future provision...