Sport

Newport IW FC will host newly promoted League 1 club Portsmouth FC at St George's Park for a 10 year anniversary pre-season friendly on Tuesday 18th July. Newport IW FC’s first team will be given the honour to play Portsmouth...

Photo: Rick Tomlinson August 2017 and August 2018 will see 2 of the World’s great sailing races start off Cowes. Both will bring large crews and teams of supporters to the Island which can only be good for business here....

The Wightlink Warriors speedway team stage their next home meeting tomorrow (Thursday) when the Kent Kings visit in a National League fixture.  After the frustrations of the last home meeting against Birmingham, the not unexpected defeat at Belle Vue and...

Wightlink-sponsored Ryde Rowing Club competed at Swanage Regatta on Saturday (13th June) which, with no coastal rowing club in the town, is a Hants & Dorset Amateur Rowing Association organised event with Ryde's Steve Bull acting as Regatta Secretary and...

On Wednesday 7th June, Matt Allsopp, Stuart Waite, Adam Holleyman and Ian Hayden popped over the Solent on the Fastcat and raced the regular Wednesday evening outdoor track event at the Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth. Hayden raced in the 35...

Calm waters and wall to wall sunshine was the backdrop for a successful day for Shanklin Sandown Rowing Club at the fifth Hants and Dorset regatta of the season, Swanage. The club had 2 Fours, 2 Pairs and 7 single sculler...

The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust has announced that British Sailing Team's Luke Patience is the charity's newest official ambassador. 30-year-old Luke is a leading 470 sailor from the British Sailing Team who has represented Team GB in the past 2 Olympics,...

The Wightlink Warriors speedway team have welcomed Florida-based photographic and blogging site Biketographer to the 2017 sponsorship team. Alan Dewey of Biketographer said: "I was raised in Southern Illinois and there was very little Speedway activity in the middle of the...

Shanklin & Sandown Golf Club’s Jordan Sundborg has broke a record that has stood for 78 years by becoming the first player from the Isle of Wight to be crowned Hampshire Amateur Champion. Sundborg, who began a golf scholarship at...

With 7 weeks to go before the opening race of Lendy Cowes Week 2017, overall entries across the board are up 10% on this time last year writes Sue Pelling. Equally encouraging is the fact that international entries are on...