Wight Living

WIGHT LIVINGFOR years it lay untended, with nothing to mark its incredible story, but the little-known history of a small plot at an Island cemetery has finally been revived.

WIGHT LIVINGIT was ten years ago this year the idea for an Island lottery to help businesses was first devised.
Since then, there has been plenty to celebrate for residents who scoop the weekly jackpot but the real winners have been the dozens of businesses loaned cash by the scheme.

WIGHT LIVINGQUESTION: When is a sixth form college not a sixth form college?
Answer: When it’s a further education college that has a sixth form centre.

WIGHT LIVING IT MAY not feel like it, particularly after the brutal winter we have just endured, but global warming is still a reality.

PEOPLE often say it’s a small world. And for one Newport craftswoman, it really is.
From small but perfectly formed chairs and tables, to miniature hand-sewn dresses and tiny plates of food bristling with detail, Kathy Shepard’s work fits snugly in the palm of your hand.

WIGHT LIVINGIT has been a long road to recovery for a 12-year-old boy who suffered a brain haemorrhage after he was hit on the head by a cricket bat.

WIGHT LIVINGTHERE’S no doubt Islanders are becoming more environmentally aware.
You can’t open the County Press these days without reading about wind turbines and tidal generators, sustainable housing and transport schemes, green energy roadshows or eco-loos.

WIGHT LIVINGBULKY TV monitors and outdated tape recorders have been ditched as part of a revolutionary upgrade at the Island’s CCTV control room.

WIGHT LIVINGIF YOU were to design a new bus-pass generation of Action Man a scaled-down Martin Woodward would be ideal.
The blue-eyed, weatherbeaten, craggy hero, with thinning blonde hair, would come equipped with all manner of devices and be capable of a wide range of daredevil tricks.

WIGHT LIVINGAS the Island came to a standstill during last week’s snowfall, paramedics went to extraordinary lengths to ensure they were not frozen out.

WIGHT LIVINGIT’S an idea which has spread Christmas cheer to thousands of children in Eastern Europe.
The IW Rotarians’ Shoebox Appeal involves not just the Island’s eight Rotary clubs but is a full-scale community effort to bring joy to some of the most deprived young people living in the former soviet state of Romania.

Wight LivingLIKE the proverbial tip of the iceberg, what you see on the surface of the museum at Caris-brooke Castle is only a fraction of what lurks beneath.

WIGHT LIVINGIT HAS been tough enough recovering from serious assault injuries and trying to come to terms with the prospect of being disabled for the rest of his life.

Wight LivingFor most people the prospect of running the New York Marathon would be enough of a challenge but to do it only 14 months after a stroke seems almost impossible.

WIGHT LILVINGTHE GIANT, swaying, blade of grass that has just sprouted in Mark and Jo Downer’s Ashey garden is symbolic of their growing yet formerly largely invisible business.