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Isle of Wight Festival to celebrate 40 years of Punk

Punk turns 40 next year, and in celebration of four decades of this exciting and at times controversial music scene The Isle of Wight Festival  has added Iggy Pop, Adam Ant, The Damned, Buzzcocks and The Godfathers to the line up for 2016. These  new acts will  join Queen + Adam Lambert, Stereophonics and Faithless ... read more

MULTI-MATERIAL CARTONS FOR RECYCLING BINS & XMAS COLLECTIONS

Island residents can now dispose of mixed-material cartons – for example Tetra Paks – in their recycling bins or clear plastic sacks. These cartons are widely used for drinks and foods such as orange juice, chopped tomatoes or long-life milk and use different materials including plastic, cardboard and aluminium, which are designed to keep the ... read more

CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS and FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Members of Girlguiding Isle of Wight have certainly got into the Christmas spirit recently. Although the Newport Christmas Carnival was cancelled, due to bad weather, 11th Newport Rainbows wanted to show off their excellent Penguin costumes to Newport shoppers and marched proudly around the town one evening with their leaders. A visit to Morrison’s supermarket ... read more

SANTA SPECIALS FOR RAINBOWS AND BROWNIES.

Dozens of members of Girlguiding IW from the Puckpool Rainbow and Brownie Sections enjoyed a visit to the IW Steam Railway, Havenstreet recently. For what has now become an annual event all the girls and their leaders journeyed on the ‘Santa Special’ steam train. As well as the ‘Santa Special’ train ride there was a ... read more

WORLD’S LEADING ANNUAL SOLO YACHT RACE IS COMING TO COWES

  Solitaire du Figaro,the World’s leading annual solo sailing race, is coming to Cowes between the 22nd and 26th June.This event will bring an exciting five-day public event to Cowes as part of the Island’s colourful ‘Festival of the Sea’ celebrations. This World-class sporting event, with an international following, spans 1525 miles between four European ... read more

GOLD AWARD FOR VISIT ISLE OF WIGHT.

‘Visit Isle of Wight’ has won a Gold Award at the Beautiful South Awards 2015 hosted by Tourism South East. This number one spot was awarded to Visit Isle of Wight’s ‘Isle of Wight Visitor Centre and Travel Ambassador Scheme’ based at Newport’s Guildhall in the Visitor Information Provider of the Year category. David Thornton, ... read more

10TH NEWPORT (CONGREGATIONAL) BROWNIES.

Back in 1955, on 18th June, a Girlguiding County rally was held at Carisbrooke Castle, with the then World Chief Guide, Olave, Lady Baden- Powell attending. Thousands of Guides, Brownies and Rangers attended. Whether it was hearing of this occasion or hearing of other Girlguiding activities on the Island we will never know but after ... read more

2016 ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL- STEREOPHONICS SEACLOSE HAT-TRICK.

Originally known as Tragic Love Company the definitive Stereophonics were formed in 1992, although the nucleus of the band took shape between 1986 and 1991. Initially a trio this Welsh Indie rock band consisted of founder members Kelly Jones (songwriter, vocalist and guitarist) bassist Richard Jones and drummer Stuart Cable. All three were born in ... read more

100 YEARS OF SERVICE FOR GIRLGUIDING.

Two Island Guiders who have both completed 50 years service for Girlguiding (Julia Downer and Rosemary Walls) have recently been honoured to attend the National Scout and Guide Service of Celebration and Thanksgiving at Westminster Abbey. This service focuses on thanking adult volunteer leaders and supporters for their service and dedication and was attended by ... read more

Discovering Domesday Wight.

Local historian John Medland is publishing a new local historybook- ‘Discovering Domesday Wight’. “This is the first time the Island entries of the Domesday Book have been published on their own in English” says the author. “The original was written in Latin and completed 927 years ago in 1086. Harking back to 1066 it is ... read more