As National Apprenticeship Week 2010 drew to a close, it’s hoped the surrounding publicity encourages more people to look into and take up the wealth of opportunities on offer. A meeting with ‘Time Team’ Tony Robinson, created an impetus for me to discover some history of Apprenticeships and to share current informational links…

Today is the launch of National Apprenticeship Week and a special Breakfast Seminar will take place at the Albert Cottage Hotel in East Cowes on 4th February between 8am and 10am…

The fun promotion by Nokia where Islanders voted and won a White Christmas for the Isle of Wight, graced Seaclose Park. As there was not much advance publicity about the event, we managed to take a few photos for our readers to enjoy…

Although the title may look cryptic to the uninitiated, news reaches our inbox: Bestival has won Best Medium Sized Festival in the UK Festival Awards 2009. Bestival curator BBC Radio 1’s Rob da Bank, will no doubt respond with pride at Bestivals latest win, as Camp Bestival also scooped its own award too! Best Family Festival…

Prepare for a dazzling show tonight from 7pm on BBC One as Terry Wogan, Tess Daly and Alesha Dixon bring you the BBC Children in Need Appeal show. Pudsey is very excited and is looking forward to all the celebrities Doing Something Different. So, invite your friends over and join us for Pudsey’s Big Night [...]

In light of the recent blogging debate against illegal file-sharing kick-started by UK artist Lily Allen, subsequently taken offline after online abuse, Mark Rose at Deep Recording studios has reinstated the debate…

Some generous members of the Isle of Wight community gave Bestival a miss on Saturday and fine tuned their online interactive entertainment into hard cash reality for charity. The inaugural Isle of Wight Twestival was online and streaming webcam fun and tweeting throughout the event, with the good team twitter raising over £1300 for Gift to Nature on the night…

Full time students pay income tax just like everybody else but research from HM Revenue & Customs reveals that more than half of the UK’s 2.3 million university students don’t realise this. The good news is many of those who have paid tax will be entitled to get it back…