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SAVING LIVES AND THE WORLD’S OCEANS.

Chandelier made from plastic bottles in the Blue Marine Exhibition. On board Tall Ship Kaskelot special guests Sir Robin Knox Johnston and Miranda Krestovnikoff performed the official opening for the 50th anniversary of the Southampton Boat Show this year sponsored by TheYachtMarket.com. It coincided with Sir Robin’s 312 day circumnavigation in the Golden Globe Race ... read more

GIRLGUIDING IW SUMMER EVENTS.

Two events have taken place recently for members of Girlguiding. During the Summer a past member of Binstead Guides returned to the Island for a visit from her home in Australia. Jennie Thompson was a Guide with the Binstead Company in the 1970s and was to become one of the first there to be awarded ... read more

THEYACHTMARKET.COM SOUTHAMPTON BOAT SHOW 2018.

TheYachtMarket.com Southampton Boat Show, Britain’s biggest and best festival of boating, showcases a selection of beautifully designed yachts and power boats and takes place 14th-23rd September. This year celebrates 50 years of the show. Taking place in Mayflower Park and on Southampton Water nearby the show is easy to get to for Island residents just ... read more

NEWS FROM LAKE GUIDES AND RANGERS.

Steph Whitlock. Lake Guides welcomed Steph Whitlock from the Wightlink Wizards development team to one of our last meetings of the Summer term. Steph and her father Colin talked to the Guides about how Steph got into Speedway, sharing stories of her first skid as well as allowing the Guides to try on race boots ... read more

CELEBRATING AGE FESTIVAL 2018

Age Friendly Island’s annual Celebrating Age Festival begins on Monday 1st October. This festival is for anyone aged 50+ and there are dozens of events across the Island for you to attend whether you want to learn something new, get fit, make friends or just have a good time for a morning or afternoon. There is ... read more

50 YEARS OF SOUTHAMPTON BOAT SHOW.

Over the years several Island companies and organisations have attended the London and Southampton Boat Shows to present their products to the wider boating fraternity. Much new business has been secured for the Island which has maintained jobs here. Now British Marine, the owners and organisers of the London Boat Show, has announced that the ... read more

Red Funnel’s Red Kestrel is over 60% complete.

 Fabrication of Red Funnel’s new £10m state-of-the-art freight ferry is on schedule at Cammell Laird’s famous shipyard on Merseyside. Red Kestrel is being built inside the main construction hall in Birkenhead from 9 individual steel blocks. Work started in May this year and since then, the superstructure and Bridge have been completed together with 64% ... read more

CHANCE FOR GIRLGUIDING MEMBERS TO ENTER COWES HARBOUR LANDMARK COMPETITION.

A Cowes Harbour Landmark Design Competition has been launched to find an inspirational design idea for an iconic “welcome” landmark to be sited on the detached Cowes Breakwater at the mouth of Cowes Harbour on the Isle of Wight. All Girlguiding IW members aged 14-18 are invited to enter the competition. Organisers, Cowes Harbour Commission, have created this ... read more

2018 HERITAGE OPEN DAYS – IW VENUES

For the first time in its 24-year history, Heritage Open Days – England’s largest festival of culture and history – will take place over two consecutive weekends in September- 6th -9th AND 13th -16th. This year, in recognition of the centenary of the Universal Suffrage Act, there will be hundreds of events taking place on ... read more

Red Funnel East Cowes Terminal – phase 1 completed

Phase 1 of Red Funnel’s £10m terminal redevelopment at East Cowes has been completed on time and on budget by Isle of Wight based, Stoneham Construction. The newly extended marshalling area will accommodate one full ships worth of traffic at any one time and vastly improves the check-in process and embarkation time for private and ... read more