Sport

Ministers yesterday (Tuesday) announced £7.5million of Government funding to support Sir Ben Ainslie’s America’s Cup team and their proposal to be based on the Camber in Portsmouth, which would bring the team to The Solent. The news follows on from Portsmouth...

Vectis Blue Disability Football Club, the Isle of Wight’s only football club for young people with disabilities, will be expanding thanks to a cash-injection and business support from the UK’s largest Sport for Development charity, Sported. The Vectis Blue Disability...

Five members of the Wightlink-LCM Systems Cycle Race Team headed over to the Winchester Park and Ride for some closed circuit racing on Sunday. In the opening 4th Category Race, an early break of 10 riders went away from the...

The weather outlook for Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week (2nd-9th August) is currently indicating that the long run of hot and gloriously sunny weather that has brought frustratingly light and fickle breezes to Cowes and the waters of the Solent...

Ryde’s Wightlink-sponsored Men’s Junior Senior Four of Stephen Johnson, Adam Edwards, Ollie Gove and James Cleary with Sam Brading coxing secured the Hants & Dorset Amateur Rowing Associations Men’s Junior Senior Fours Championship at Christchurch Regatta on Saturday, with their seventh...

Ventnor’s first appearance of the season at Newclose saw the ECB Southern Electric Premier Division encounter with Totton & Eling on Saturday end in a draw. The visitors elected to bat first in the all-day fixture and it was Darron...

Wightlink-LCM Systems Cycle Race Team rider James Ebdon travelled to Liss in Hampshire for an …a3crg evening time trial last Wednesday. Based on the A3, the course started on a slip road and turned southbound for 5 miles before turning...

There was more success for Wightlink sponsored Ryde Rowing Club at Swanage Regatta on Saturday. With no local club, the Hants & Dorset Rowing Association took on the organisation of the weekend's event with the Association's Secretary, Ryde’s Steve Bull,...

Newport Football Club have unveiled their first signing of the summer, defender Scott Sampson. The former Blackfield & Langley favourite, who won the Wessex Premier League medal playing for the Champions in 2012/13, has agreed to sign on after playing...

With less than two months to go until the start of Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week 2014, excitement is building at Regatta HQ with a packed schedule ashore taking shape. Island residents and regetta visitors alike will be pleased to...