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The Isle of Wight will be host to the final round of the Southern Cross Country Mountain Bike (XC MTB) Championships organised by the Wightlink-Wight Mountain team on Sunday (14th July). This will be the biggest MTB XC event ever ...

Residents at Old Charlton House recently sailed into the open water off the coast of Cowes and East Cowes. The charity Cowes Sailability, in conjunction with WetWheels based in Hamble, provide specially adapted boats and trained volunteers to make it ...

Madonna, The Spice Girls, Abba and Elvis were just some of the stars at the St Catherine’s Popstars themed Summer Fair. The event raised a fantastic £1,700, which will help the school, which supports students with speech, language and communications ...

Isle of Wight rower Annie Caddick will represent Great Britain in the PR3 Mixed double sculls in the 2024 Paris Paralympics which start at the end of August. Annie will be competing in this new boat class together with Sam ...

Cowes-based architect Leah Mew is celebrating a double success at the prestigious Isle of Wight Society Conservation Awards and RIBA Design Awards. It was the first time Leah had entered the awards yet she won both the RIBA Martin Pearce ...

Red Funnel has cancelled 2 of its evening sailings for this coming Wednesday due to what it is calling 'essential maintenance'. The 20:15 vehicle ferry sailing from Southampton has been cancelled on 10th July, as has the 21:45 from East ...

The Isle of Wight Council has joined other local authorities across the South East to create the country’s largest local authority fostering partnership, in a bid to increase the number of foster carers across the region. With more than 11,000 ...

The Hollywood writers and actors strikes are being blamed for a delay in the sale of Kingston Marine Park in East Cowes - but things are progressing and a planning application is due to be submitted within weeks. It was ...

A well-established Chinese takeaway in Newport is to expand its operations by opening a second takeaway in Ryde. Loys, on Upper St James' Street, has been serving hungry customers across the Island's county town for decades. Now, owner Li Yatao ...

The cost of running the Isle of Wight's leisure centres has dramatically increased since the pandemic with new figures showing that the utility bills alone now come in at over £700,000 a year. The Isle of Wight Council has been ...