Discovery visits with costumed storytelling and hands on historical investigation has helped Osborne House on the Isle of Wight win the prestigious Sandford Award, the industry’s top accolade from the Heritage Education Trust…
Andrew Turner the Island’s MP has written to DEFRA, to seek a firm undertaking that the needs of the Island will be taken into account in looking at the future of the Yarmouth to Lymington ferry service. He has also tabled a series of Parliamentary Questions about the operation of the ferry service…
Three businesses from the Isle of Wight have been shortlisted for this year’s prestigious Tourism ExSEllence Awards. These include, Isle of Wight Luxury Apartments and two B&Bs going head to head in the Bed & Breakfast / Guest Accommodation category: last years winners Enchanted Manor and The Leconfield in Ventnor…
Island Police have been putting a two-wheeled eco friendly green machine through its battery powered paces on roads around the Isle of Wight…
Isle of Wight Photographers, have swept the board in making the shortlist of the annual Co-operative Travel Big Picture Photography Competition 2008. Out of the hundreds of entries submitted, we can reveal there quite a few photographs from Island Photographers of their travels at home and abroad. The competition organisers have opened up the voting process to the Island public, the deadline is tight as voting ends on 17th October 2008…
Paul Chaplin writes of his Island Holiday : We have just returned from a weeks holiday on your lovely Island. However our experience of our holiday accomodation was awful resulting in my 90 yr old father having to be hospitalised 3 times during the week, after breathing in damp spores from the bedroom where he was sleeping…
The Island is putting its best foot forward this month with a new Walking Festival, organisers are turning their attention to the weekend long event, on 24th-27th October…
The Isle of Wight Council is looking for a major new event to replace the White Air festival. The council reacted swiftly to the news that the extreme sports event, of which it has been a principal supporter for a number of years, is to relocate to Brighton…
