Following on from last year’s JPMAM Round the Island Race model boat building competition, a special training day was held at UKSA to re-launch the competition for 2010. Organised through the Isle of Wight Young Chamber, students get the chance to put their boat designing skills to the test…

After a police investigation with DNA profiling, an Isle of Wight man was sentenced at Portsmouth Crown Court today (Friday, March 19th, 2010) to eight years in prison for an historical rape in 1990…

Isle of Wight Council is reminding residents of forthcoming changes to concessionary travel on public transport. Locally, two changes come in from April which affect the times of free concessionary travel on the Island and also the cost of the Student Rider ticket respectively…

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…

Island MP Andrew Turner has welcomed the news by Red Funnel of discounted tickets for hospital and hospice patients and their visitors who make repeated trips across the Solent. This was one of the positive outcomes of his submission to the Office of Fair Trading last year, which was supported by over 9,000 Islanders, businesses and organisations…

The appointment of Mrs Judith Richardson as new Chief Executive for the Island Innovation Trust formally Medina Innovation Trust, is hailed as a major step in the creation of two new federated secondary schools for Newport on the Isle of Wight…

A display of BMX skills has been added to the array of events at a roadshow to promote cycling safety on the Isle of Wight this weekend. Community safety partner agencies and local cycle businesses are joining forces to give more cyclists the skills to be safer at the event in Ryde…