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Isle of Wight Haiti Appeal Concert

January 29th, 2010

Featuring top-class Island acts, the Isle of Wight Haiti Appeal Concert on February 6th, aims to raise much needed funds for the DEC following the devastating earthquake earlier this month…



Bestival Wins BMS in UKFA 2009

November 20th, 2009

Although the title may look cryptic to the uninitiated, news reaches our inbox: Bestival has won Best Medium Sized Festival in the UK Festival Awards 2009. Bestival curator BBC Radio 1’s Rob da Bank, will no doubt respond with pride at Bestivals latest win, as Camp Bestival also scooped its own award too! Best Family Festival…



Mighty Bestival Pair Reach UK Festival Awards Shortlist

October 15th, 2009

Bestival and Camp Bestival are in with a real chance of winning some coveted Festival awards again, but are going to need your help!…



Vote For Bestival in UK Festival Awards 2009

September 25th, 2009

Vote for Bestival in the UK Festival Awards 2009 as they have notched up 5 award nominations for Bestival and an impressive 6 nominations for Camp Bestival. In voting you could win a pair of tickets to every single winning festival next year, that could be more than 10 festivals!…



WIGHT HOT PIPES In New CD

September 18th, 2009

A new CD ‘The Road Ahead’ has been released by Isle of Wight GP & award winning bagpiper Dr Kieron Cooney, to raise funds for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice…



Bestival 2010 Early Bird Tickets

September 17th, 2009

Bestival organisers have already started planning the Bestival 2010 shindig and Early Bird Tickets are released this Friday. The 7th Bestival is certain to be another scorcher so to make sure you don’t miss out on the next incredible Isle of Wight adventure…



Bestival Hailed As ‘Safest Yet’

September 15th, 2009

Police chiefs are hailing this year’s Bestival event one of the safest yet after a successful four-day policing operation. The event was attended by more than 40,000 people, and “Yet again this year, the Bestival is maintaining its deserved reputation for being a safe and peaceful event, with no significant incidents and low levels of crime throughout,” said Chief Superintendent Dave Thomas…



Island Twestival A Delight For Charity

September 14th, 2009

Some generous members of the Isle of Wight community gave Bestival a miss on Saturday and fine tuned their online interactive entertainment into hard cash reality for charity. The inaugural Isle of Wight Twestival was online and streaming webcam fun and tweeting throughout the event, with the good team twitter raising over £1300 for Gift to Nature on the night…