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Shanklin Ladies faced a tough Millbrook side in Hampshire County Women’s League Division 1 on Sunday. The Island team headed across the Solent hoping to maintain their 100% unbeaten record in the league and challenge for top spot. Millbrook came ...

Ventnor’s Independent Record Store, Reggie’s Retro is preparing for a special celebration of National Album Day on Saturday (19th October) with live performances from Isle of Wight up-and-coming musicians. To honour this year’s theme “Great British Groups, Ventnor duo Daysi ...

Angela Wallace from Ryde has received a national nomination for her outstanding work within Girlguiding Isle of Wight. Angela was introduced to the Chief Guide Tracy Foster and the Deputy Chief Guide Sally Kettle at the national event Girlguiding Celebrates ...

Libraries across the Isle of Wight have enhanced the local creative network by continuing to host an Islandwide Healing Art Trail. Removed from public display in a relaxation area of St Mary's Hospital at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

The newly formed Greenpeace IOW group joined the Common Grounds National Day of Action at the Unitarian Meeting Hall in Newport on Saturday (12th October).   West Wight Labour MP Richard Quigley attended along with Green Party Candidate for Isle of ...

A national body has stepped into the possible school closures furore, saying few politicians are brave enough to go where the Isle of Wight Council is going. The Local Government Association (LGA), an organisation representing local authorities across the UK, ...

Bembridge Harbour has been shortlisted in the Marina of the Year category of the British Yachting Awards. The East Wight-based harbour are 1 of 5 harbours from around the UK who have been nominated for this award, 2 of which ...

The White Lady Bridge in Shorwell, which is said to be in a very poor and unsafe condition, is set to be replaced with a new, steel replica. Shorwell Parish Council has applied to the Isle of Wight Council for ...

More than 100,000 people across Hampshire and Isle of Wight have taken up the offer of a free COVID-19 vaccination in the first week of the autumn campaign. Your local NHS would like to remind you that there are still ...

East Cowes Victoria returned to the top of Wessex Division 1 with a comprehensive victory over Fleetlands at Beatrice Avenue on Tuesday evening. Victory was all the sweeter for Vics as it was the Coptermen who had denied the East ...