The new Google Street View for the Isle of Wight has been launched. Internet users of Google Maps are now able to get in-depth imagery from around the Island…

A group of enthusiastic people from the Isle of Wight are organising the Ryde International Film Festival for September 2010. In preparation of this fantastic event, the official website www.isleofwightinternationalfilmfestival.com is up and running…

Bus travel will soon be safer, more efficient and easier to use under new Government proposals. Plans outline measures to improve services including a ban on the consumption of alcohol and proposals to allow local authorities to set maximum ticket prices for all…

After a spell presenting Radio in Florida, Alex Dyke is back on home turf to provide BBC Radio Solent listeners with a Saturday lunchtime soundtrack guaranteed to raise a smile. Alex will lift the lid on a box of musical guilty pleasures with a reprise of his legendary “Bubblegum and Cheese” which promises to delight his fans on the Isle of Wight and beyond…

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…

Portsmouth newspaper, The News, has been censured by the Press Complaints Commission. The PCC committee oversees the voluntary code of practice which applies to editorial material by journalists in both printed and online publications…

Yarmouth’s RNLI lifeboat, launched on Saturday to go to the aid of a crew of two adults and two children on board a 26 foot yacht which was drifting dangerously close to the Shingles Bank in the Western Solent…

A pinch of salt might make many of our favourite dishes that bit tastier, but it could kill some garden birds. The RSPB is urging people not to use salt as a de-icer in bird baths, and suggests placing a small floating item, such as a twig or a cork, into bird baths when they are first filled…