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Lake Parish Council has paid tribute to Councillor Bette Young following her retirement at the Council’s recent Annual Meeting. The meeting, held for the first time at the new venue known as the Meeting Place next to the New Road ...

Shanklin-Sandown Rowing Club have struck gold at their first-ever appearance at the British Masters Championships, held at the National Watersports Centre in Nottingham last weekend. Club members Simon Nevitt and Gary Burch competed against some of the most experienced rowers ...

2 free foot passenger crossings will be offered for every young Island person in training or Sixth Form education as part of a ground-breaking range of travel benefits announced by Wightlink to encourage career, education, training and leisure travel to ...

Plans to give a Cowes town centre bar a raised outside seating area have been refused. County Hall rejected Steve Tewkesbury’s proposal for raised seating to the rear of The Bird Bar at 104 High Street, Cowes. A statement submitted ...

Rock and roll stories, PR legends, and a touch of Isle of Wight history came together as Alan Edwards launched his new book at Dimbola Museum and Galleries earlier this week (Wednesday). While welcoming guests to a book launch at ...

A team of 9 dedicated young swimmers from the Isle of Wight are preparing to represent their home at the 2025 International Island Games in Orkney next month - and they’re marking the moment with a 48-kilometre sponsored swim. The ...

Southern Vectis is working to establish the cause of a blaze that destroyed one of its Isle of Wight Festival transport buses during the early hours of this morning (Friday). It was just before 00:40 that the Salisbury Reds-liveried double ...

Blue House students from The Bay CE School have officially unveiled 'Sandy McPuller', the newly named lifeboat tractor at Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat, after raising over £1,200 through a school fundraiser. Last Friday (13th June), students visited the lifeboat ...

There was glorious sunshine, community spirit and a touch of nostalgia as Celebrate 80 took over Newport’s Victoria Recreation Ground last weekend (Saturday 14th June), bringing generations together to mark 80 years since the end of World War II. Organised ...

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust is celebrating the return of one of the UK’s most cherished and threatened woodland mammals, the hazel dormouse, to Swanpond Copse Nature Reserve near Ryde. This marks the first confirmed sighting of this ...