Local Community News

Visit Isle of Wight (VIOW) - the Destination Management Organisation tasked with attracting more visitors to the Isle of Wight - has announced significant investment in a major new marketing campaign aimed at driving pre-season visitor numbers. The spring campaign,...

Winning numbers for 26th February 2014 03 — 06 — 18 — 24 Incredibly, it is a rollover once again so next weeks Jackpot continues to rise and is a whopping £4300! Lifeboat Lotto has been set up by a...

Wightlink's Wight Ryder 1 will be removed from service for its annual refit from Monday (3rd March), resulting in a change to the Ryde Pier Head to Portsmouth Harbour cross-Solent timetable. During the refit, the charter vessel Solent Cat will...

UPDATED: The frustration of no mobile phone signal continues for O2 customers in Ryde following the failure of a mast in the town. The telecommunications company has said that the recent bad weather damaged the mast on top of the...

With torrential wind and rain hitting the Island’s already saturated ground after the wettest December and January in nearly one hundred years, Island Roads staff have been met with a massive storm response and clean up challenge that has been...

Wightlink is giving customers the opportunity to change its timetable on Friday evenings. People are being asked to vote on which one of two proposed late sailings from Portsmouth to Fishbourne they would prefer to travel on. The most popular...

The Island’s MP Andrew Turner was joined by his four-legged friend on a visit to a local charity this week.  Mr Turner went to the Friends of the Animals headquarters on Dodnor Industrial Estate in Newport to catch up on...

In one week, Yarmouth has suffered the worst flooding for 50 years and a prolonged main road closure, which has caused great concern for residents and businesses in the coastal town.  In light of the devastating effect this will have...

Fears are growing that a large section of the West Wight coastline could fall into the sea following the appearance of a 3/4 mile long crack and landslip on Headon Warren near Totland. The ground has dropped around 12ft according...

The number of Islanders claiming the unemployment benefit Jobseekers Allowance is nearing a five year low, according to figures released today. Some 3159 people were receiving the JSA benefit last month (January 2014), edging towards the low of January 2009...