Local Community News

There are some minor timetable changes on Wightlink's Yarmouth-Lymington car ferry route tomorrow (Saturday) and for the rest of the year. The 07:45 and 08:45 sailings from Lymington will be departing five minutes earlier, at 07:40 and 08:40. This is...

Proposals for the future of the Isle of Wight Council’s youth service were approved by the council’s Executive on Tuesday. The approval gives a green light to radical changes to the way youth services are provided on the Island, with...

An 83-year-old retired teacher from Totland certainly isn’t ready to hang up his hiking boots just yet as John H White is set to walk the full 26.5 miles of this year's Walk the Wight, from Bembridge to the Needles. John, a...

A report by Her Majesty's inspectors of schools, Ofsted, has found that Carisbrooke College is making reasonable progress to move out of special measures. In an inspection at the end of March, the third such inspection since the school was...

A new base for two of the council’s children’s services teams was officially opened yesterday (Wednesday) by the chairman of the Isle of Wight Council, Cll Ian Ward and Cllr Richard Priest, Executive member for children’s services and education. The...

The Earl Mountbatten Hospice (EMH) has earned a presidential seal of approval. Nan McCreadie, the first female President of Rotary International Britain and Ireland, recently visited the hospice to see facilities at its John Cheverton Centre. Nan and other Rotary...

Andrew Turner held a meeting last week with Prisons Minister Jeremy Wright MP to discuss the proposed plan for two wind turbines in Parkhurst Forest by Partnerships for Renewables (PfR), a London based developer of onshore wind turbine projects on publicly...

UPDATED: A Dementia Awareness Day organised by the Memory Service is being held at St Mary's Hospital next Wednesday. ***THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED***  The Awareness Day, running on Wednesday 16th April 2014 between 10:00 and 15:00 in the Conference Room...

Nettlecombe Farm in Whitwell has secured a place in the finals of the prestigious VisitEngland (VE) Awards for Excellence 2014, it has been announced.  After winning Gold earlier this year at the regional Tourism South East Beautiful South Awards, Nettlecombe’s...

To celebrate English Tourism Week, which ran from 29th March to 6th April, the Island’s MP, Andrew Turner  joined Tom Ransom of Visit Isle of Wight (VIOW) on a new “Taste” Round the Island cycle route, part of a new...