Local Community News

Island school leavers, who unable to secure or fund a place at conventional university, and young workers seeking an alternative career path, would do well to consider the highly professional and burgeoning international maritime sector. Cowes-based youth education charity UKSA still...

New civil powers that help police protect victims of domestic violence are being used across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight from today (Monday). Officers can now apply for Domestic Violence Protection Notices and Orders to prevent further violence between...

The date for next year's Isle of Wight Festival has been announced this morning (Monday). Seaclose Park will be transformed once again for a weekend to remember as the Isle of Wight Festival returns between 11th-14th June 2015. You can...

Veterans and local dignitaries will gather in St Thomas’ Square in Newport at 11:00 on Monday (23 June) for the annual Armed Forces Day flag raising ceremony. The ceremony, conducted by Reverend Kevin Arkell, is an opportunity for representatives of...

A record number of facility grants for disabled people were approved by the Isle of Wight Council in 2013/2014, new figures show. The council’s Housing Renewal Section approved 248 grants last year, an increase of 10.7 per cent on the...

Four young people who received help from the Isle of Wight Council to start their own businesses attended a lunch with Princess Beatrice on Monday. The lunch, hosted at Osborne House by English Heritage, was organised by the Lord-Lieutenant of the...

The Isle of Wight Council is reviewing the way it handles petitions following recent issues surrounding a number which have been compiled via online facilities, including a petition against parking proposals for Appley and Puckpool parks in Ryde. Executive member...

Freshwater Library celebrates its 75th birthday this year and is holding a celebratory garden party later this month. Library staff and the Friends of Freshwater Library have organised the party for Tuesday 24th June between 14:00 and 16:00 at the...

Children from twelve Isle of Wight schools will discover what it was like to be evacuated during the Second World War. An annual event at Havenstreet's Isle of Wight Steam Railway, which will be transformed to replicate a wartime station,...

International charity Roll out the Barrell (ROTB) Trust are asking people to Walk For Water, to celebrate the fact that the charity are now officially registered with the Charity Commission to use the Walk for Water and Walk 4 Water...