Local Community News

Mary Case, the Isle of Wight’s High Sheriff, had a special task to perform when she visited the RNLI’s Cowes lifeboat station: presenting radar certificates. Altogether 18 crew and non-crew members had successfully undergone an intensive radar course, spread over...

Barn Store, who operate an Isle of Wight storage business, has scooped the 2013 Rural Enterprise Award at the Farm Business Food and Farming Industry Awards. Presented at the House of Commons, franchisor Martin Bazeley received the much deserved award...

A fresh look at the way youth services are delivered on the Isle of Wight has resulted in initial proposals being developed for a more targeted service with dedicated funding to cater for local needs. As part of the new...

The Island’s MP, Andrew Turner, has welcomed the news that four Abbeyfield homes on the Island will be taking part in the Coping at Christmas Campaign. Abbeyfield is a charity working to enhance the lives of older people in the...

The Isle of Wight’s Footprint Trust has launched a hard-hitting appeal aimed at highlighting the miserable Christmas that many families will face this Christmas. In a special appeal leaflet the Trust makes the point that many Island families will be...

VIDEO: Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) will hold further strikes this week after failing to reach an agreement with the government over pension reforms. Members of the FBU will strike between 18:00 and 22:00 tonight (Friday) and again...

An Isle of Wight Post Office has been awarded a grant of up to £10,000 after successfully winning a Community Enterprise Fund competition for their outstanding proposals to support local people and businesses and to tackle isolation amongst the elderly....

Yesterday (Wednesday) the Island’s MP, Andrew Turner, led a 90 minute debate in Westminster Hall on the subject of Government policy on immigration.  Transitional controls for citizens of Romania and Bulgaria (who joined the EU in 2007) expire at the...

Funding has been granted to Cowes-based youth charity UKSA to put more young people through their successful engagement programmes in a bid to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour. The Hampshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Simon Hayes, has granted funding to provide...

Winning numbers for 11th December 2013 04 — 14 — 21 — 31 Incredibly, it is a rollover once again so next weeks Jackpot continues to rise and is a whopping £3200! Lifeboat Lotto has been set up by a...