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This Saturday Isle of Wight Pride celebrates a return to the beach with a weekend of entertainment, community village and to start proceedings a parade through Ryde. The Pride Parade will start at 11:00 from Ryde School on Queens Road ...

Isle of Wight residents are being encouraged to take small steps to make a big difference this Plastic Free July. The Isle of Wight Council is supporting the annual #PlasticFreeJuly campaign, which is organised by the Plastic Free Foundation to ...

A yachtsman who received a head injury aboard a classic yacht became the subject of a rescue operation on the Solent this afternoon (Thursday). It had been reported that the sailor had been hit by the yacht’s boom. Cowes RNLI's ...

Wight Tri Athletes Nick and Laura Curwood and Craig Wilson travelled to the mainland to compete in events last weekend. On 13th July, Wight Tri triathletes Nick and Laura Curwood returned to their old stomping ground, Dorney Lake, to take ...

Wightlink has once again announced a revised timetable for its Fishbourne-Portsmouth route due to a lack of staff. Due to the absence of an essential crew member, the cross-Solent operator will be running a revised timetable tomorrow (Friday). The news ...

Lottie Pettitt Rowers from Ryde Rowing Club made the short trip to Southampton for the Itchen Imperial Rowing Club Regatta on Saturday (13th July). The regatta was held over a 1,400-metre course on the River Itchen, where crews and scullers ...

The Royal Isle of Wight Agricultural Society’s Isle of Wight Rural Awards, sponsored by the CLA, have once again recognised individuals and businesses representing the very best of rural achievement on the Island. The awards, which were handed out at ...

More than 100 Islanders, who are sponsored by Wightlink, came together for coffee and cake in Newport to update ferry company staff about their activities over the last year. Cyclists, rowers, footballers, athletes, sailors, skateboarders, musicians, singers and many more ...

A ‘boat fire’ off the coast of Cowes led to a callout for HM Coastguard, firefighters and the RNLI this morning (Thursday). At around 11:00 a call was made to suggest that a speedboat - off the coast of Cowes ...

Ryde Harriers Matt Sharp and Chris Newnham both had great runs in the London 10k, which weaved through the main parts of the city with a huge field of 18,000 runners. From the gun, Matt was soon into his running ...