Local Community News

Ryde Pier Head will become a pop-up cinema for a night next month as Wightlink offers Islanders the chance to watch a recent Hollywood blockbuster free of charge. Fittingly, the movie chosen to be shown on Saturday 5th July at...

Southern Water customers on the Isle of Wight are set to benefit from lower average bills after the company updated its Business Plan for 2015 to 2020. It is now proposed that average bills will rise by 3.2 per cent...

The Isle of Wight Council is set to help more local people get into sport thanks to £250,000 of National Lottery funding from Sport England’s Community Sport Activation Fund. The Isle of Wight Council put forward a funding bid to...

Cowes Week Limited (CWL) has announced that localletterbox has extended its support of the regatta in 2014 to include even more awe-inspiring airborne displays which will significantly enhance the shore-side programme at this year’s regatta. local letterbox, an exciting new...

Staff and volunteers from Earl Mountbatten Hospice proved to be top of the pots when it came to fundraising during this year’s Isle of Wight Festival. Around a dozen volunteers sold the now iconic hospice sunflower around the festival site...

Wightlink Ferries will be remembering the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War on Saturday (28th June). All of the company’s ferries will fly their flags and ensigns at half mast during the day as a sign of...

School’s almost out for summer and it’s nearly time to bin the regulation footwear and dig out the flip flops and trainers.  But before discarding those unwanted school shoes, the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA) are asking...

Further details have been disclosed about the financial and other arrangements behind the proposed turbines on land in Parkhurst Forest rented to Partnerships for Renewables (PfR) by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). The Island’s MP Andrew Turner organised a meeting...

A record number of people signed up to join the UK Stem Cell Registry at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival. Just under five hundred people signed up and swabbed the inside of their cheeks at a festival stand run...

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...