Since January of this year the Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust’s Healing Arts team has been working on a research project with children, teachers and parents of Nine Acres School, to produce a new publication which could eventually be used in schools nationwide.

The Forest Road Civic Amenity Site in Newport will be closed to the public on Saturday 5th July to enable staff to carry out health and safety improvements.

Over 150 veterans gathered in the grounds of Northwood House in Cowes on Friday the 27th June to attend a traditional military Drumhead Service and march past with the salute taken by HM Lord-Lieutenant as part of the Island’s Veteran’s Day celebrations.

The annual Tackling Drugs Changing Lives Awards, have been launched today and the search begins for unsung heroes who are making a real difference in their local community.
The national awards recognise, reward and celebrate the people on the front-line who are working to tackle drugs and change lives every day. 

Female sailor or not, ladies now have a chance to be part of Liz Earle Ladies Day at Skandia Cowes Week on Thursday 7th August. 
To help get you in the mood, Cowes Week Ltd  (CWL) has launched a special Liz Earle Ladies Day competition to win some fabulous prizes.
Courtesy of Skandia Cowes Week sponsors, lucky female visitors to [...]

Bestival’s Rob Da Bank will be hosting and headlining the beach bar party on Saturday, at White Air Festival 2008. Party night groups confirmed also include Sam Isaac, Mamas Gun with more tbc…

A record-matching fleet is due to take to the water today for the first inshore races of the 2008 Rolex Commodores’ Cup.  The crews, who are almost entirely amateur, will race over the next week on a mixture of courses: windward-leewards in the Solent, a long offshore and new for this year a race around [...]

Tales of alien abductions, flying saucers and crop circles may seem the realm of fantasy novels and science fiction movies, but reports like these are among the files now released to the public by the Ministry of Defence.   As reports in January confirmed by the Isle of Wight County Press: DID YOU SEE THIS UFO? and quite extraordinary: [...]