An inquest into the death of Amphon Tuckey at Newport Coroner’s Court, today recorded a verdict of accidental death. Amphon Tuckey, who was known as Juny, died at her home in Newport on September 17th, 2008…

YMCA Fairthorne Group has scooped a Lottery grant of £457,523 to fund a new service to support bereaved children on the Isle of Wight. The funding will allow YMCA Winchester House in Shanklin, to get the ‘Help2gGrieve’ scheme for young people off the ground…

Regular weekly news review bulletin, providing an overview of top stories and featured news from the Island Pulse in just sixty seconds or less. 8th – 14th March 2010…

Readers may remember news of the Digital Economy Bill gaining royal assent back in November. Island Photographers feel the DEB is not good news, in essence it provides the government “unprecedented and sweeping powers” to amend copyright laws without further consultation…

Regular weekly news review bulletin, providing an overview of top stories and featured news from the Island Pulse in just sixty seconds or less. 22nd – 28th February 2010…

English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund have awarded £334,000 to St Mildreds and St Thomas Churches on the Isle of Wight. The heaven sent amount comes from Heritage grant funding which provides financial help to repair historic places of worship…

Wightlink’s response to the judgement announced today (16th February 2010) by Mr Justice Owen. Wightlink notes the judgment, and will consider what steps it will be required to take in its role as competent authority to address this issue… Read full Press Release here…

Another satirical snippet from the NewsBiscuit: Paranoid man from the Isle of Wight claims he is being followed on Twitter. James Crowthorn from Sandown told NewsBiscuit : It’s a bit weird – like someone on the internet is paying attention to what I’m saying.’…