Local Community News

The Island’s MP Andrew Turner, working with the Island Business Forum, has organised a meeting to help local businesses find out what opportunities are in place to access Government funding and support. The recently announced Southampton and Portsmouth City Deal...

Winning numbers for 16th April 2014 4 – 20 – 23 – 29 Incredibly, it is a rollover once again so next weeks Jackpot continues to rise and is a whopping £5000! Lifeboat Lotto has been set up by a...

Men, women and children of all ages are being invited to join in a day of fun and sporting activities and 'Wight's fight against cancer' as a brand new Summer event is launched - Race for All. Fighting against an illness that affects...

A popular footpath in Brading has been re-opened following improvements works. The path, which runs from Quay Lane to the old railway line, has been resurfaced with tarmac, has had new fencing and a stone retaining wall installed and has...

Police have issued an appeal for information after a man with mental health issues went missing from Sussex, with the possibility that he may visit the Isle of Wight. Jason Merriman, 43, left The Oaklands Centre for Acute Care in...

Hampshire's Police and Crime Commissioner, Simon Hayes, is seeking questions from members of the public on their confidence in the police for the next Commissioner’s Performance, Accountability, Scrutiny and Strategy (COMPASS) meeting with Hampshire Constabulary's Chief Constable Andy Marsh. Mr Hayes is...

The Isle of Wight College has been awarded the prestigious whole-college re-accreditation for the matrix Standard.  The matrix Standard is the unique quality framework for the effective delivery of impartial information, advice and guidance (IAG) about learning and work. Although...

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...