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Islanders have until Friday to donate just £5 to charity for a chance to participate in this year's Bestival Ryde Slide, which returns for a second year on 17th July. Following on from the success of the inaugural event in 2015, the...

Rough conditions resulted in the total loss of a well known Isle of Wight yacht, Alchemist, during the J P Morgan Asset Management Round The Island Yacht race yesterday (Saturday). Yarmouth RNLI's all weather lifeboat raced to help the stricken...

Prince Michael of Kent spent over an hour at the Cowes RNLI lifeboat station yesterday (Saturday), talking to the station’s volunteers and receiving a guided tour of the station, opened by Her Majesty The Queen in 2012. The visit coincided...

The High Sheriff’s wish that the Island should be covered in celebratory bunting for the inaugural Isle of Wight Day on 24th September has been answered in dramatic fashion by the Island’s 3 cross-Solent ferry companies. Hovertravel, Red Funnel and Wightlink have...

RNLI lifeguards will return to Sandown beach today (Saturday) after a successful first year of service on the Isle of Wight, which launched for the first time in the lifesaving charity’s history last summer. Clad in their distinctive red and yellow...

UPDATED: A 29-year-old man was arrested by detectives in the West Wight this morning (Friday) following a joint investigation involving Newport CID and officers from the West Wight Neighbourhood Policing Team. A quantity of white powder was seized following a raid on...

Lynnbottom Household Recycling Centre is currently undergoing a much needed facelift to improve the services it offers to residents and businesses and as a result will close for a 2 week period next month. Works at Lynnbottom off Briddlesford Road,...

Part of the children’s playground at Puckpool Park in Ryde will be closed off with fencing to the public from now until Monday 18th July whilst it undergoes essential repairs.  Whilst works are completed, the popular musical spider and tyre...

Plans to bring £900m of funding to our region are moving forward as 3 councils prepare to formally consider plans for a Solent Combined Authority. The Isle of Wight Council, Portsmouth City Council and Southampton City Council, together with the Solent Local...

The High Court has today (Thursday) refused permission for the Isle of Wight Council to appeal a judgement made over unauthorised school absences last month, but the Council have been given the green light to appeal to the highest court...