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Free family magic and comedy shows have returned to East Cowes and Ryde for the summer holidays, with weekly performances taking place throughout August thanks to the support of local sponsors.

Workers at the Isle of Wight's Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) Inshore Lifeboat Centre will take industrial action as the charity is still failing to offer improvements to a redundancy package for Unite members, despite weeks of negotiations.

An evening of LGBTQ+ heritage, local history, theatre, and creative exchange will take place at Department in Ryde next month.

HRH The Princess Royal officially fired the starting gun for North Sails Cowes Week 2026 yesterday (Sunday), marking the beginning of racing in the regatta's historic bicentenary year.

Fresh proposals to develop greenfield land in Freshwater, with 3 custom-build houses and an orchard, are facing renewed opposition.

The milestone marks the first UK-built Islander in almost 60 years, a landmark achievement for brigning aircraft manufacturing to the Isle of Wight.

We do not deserve to let ‘corporate America’ dictate the ‘destruction’ of the British countryside say Cowes residents before Councillors voted against the new McDonald's

The Isle of Wight Council’s Bereavement Services is celebrating after the Isle of Wight Crematorium was awarded a prestigious Green Flag Award.

Advanced composite technology developed and manufactured at GKN Cowes has been used to produce the wings and control surfaces for the UK's first Collaborative Combat Aircraft prototype.

There is a massive structural shift happening in the global iGaming sector. What started out as a fragmented landscape of basic digital slots has now evolved into a truly sophisticated multi-billion-dollar technology industry. And this expansion is not equal all ...