A new ‘Changing Places’ toilet facility for severely disabled children and adults is officially opened at the Riverside Centre in Newport. Funded by the Isle of Wight Council, the £10,000 high dependency facility, follows a need for such an installation on the Island…

Under Operation Sheridan, Police officers from the Isle of Wight’s Targeted Patrol Teams and Dog Support Unit arrested three people last Friday, for suspected drugs offences on Ryde Pier…

Isle of Wight Grain Storage, the co-operative servicing 50 farmer members on the island, has switched its marketing operation. The majority of the grain stored and marketed, which include milling wheats, malting barley, oilseed rape, oats, rye and linseed, will be sold through Frontier Agriculture…

From this month ladies between 47 – 49 years will be offered breast screening on the Island as part of the National Beast-Screening Programme. The Isle of Wight Breast Screening Unit at St. Mary’s Hospital is the first centre within the South Central (West) region to reduce the age limit of inviting ladies for breast screening…

Isle of Wight based organisations are being encouraged to apply for grants of between £2,500 – £120,000 to help provide fun-filled activities for disabled children. The funding is ‘Aiming High for Disabled Children’..

The review of a recent exhibition ‘The Camera & Beyond’ at Dimbola Lodge on the Isle of Wight by the No Man is an Island group, features in the London 2012 Inspire Newsletter this month. It was a wonderful opportunity for the artists and young photographers to see the fruits of their work and to share them with families, friends and supporters…

Last week 45 individuals and teams were recognised for their hard work and dedication during the January snow with an NHS Snow Heroes reception in the Full Circle Restaurant, St Mary’s Hospital…

As ACRE and RCAN announce the launch of this year’s £500,000 COMMA fund, community groups on the Isle of Wight are being encouraged to apply for between £3,000 and £20,000 for community based projects…