Friday, February 3, 2012
WIGHT LIVINGINSPIRING, caring and considerate young people, who put the needs of their family before their own, show exactly why we should have faith in the younger generation.
Friday, January 27, 2012
WIGHT LIVINGEACH week, its seems the list of economic casualties grows longer on the Island, as the global downturn is reflected in the empty shops and growing job queues.
Friday, January 20, 2012
WIGHT LIVINGTHEY are two of the most inhospitable places on the planet.
Friday, January 13, 2012
WIGHT LIVINGLOVE thy neighbour is an old saying that has been forgotten by some people.
But a new scheme on the Island is trying to restore the idea of helping others.
Friday, January 6, 2012
WIGHT LIVINGIMAGINE, just for a second, what it’s like to suffer from some form of mental illness.
Friday, December 30, 2011
WIGHT LIVINGHE was one of the Victorian age’s greatest inventors. From developing the original technology for baking and packing Shredded Wheat to inventing a steam driven ‘horseless carriage’ it seemed that nothing was beyond the restless and fertile mind of American genius, entrepreneur and latterly Island resident and businessman, Henry Alonzo House.
Friday, December 23, 2011
WIGHT LIVING CELEBRATED author James Joyce had it all wrong when one of his characters described a pier as: “A disappointed bridge”.
Friday, December 16, 2011
WIGHT LIVINGTHEY were known as Palmerston’s Follies — and they have continued to live up to that name.
They never shot a cannon in anger at the French, against whom they were built as a defensive line, and business ideas for the Solent forts’ use have largely been equally damp squibs.
Friday, December 9, 2011
WIGHT LIVINGWHEN a team of determined cyclists finally crossed the line at the end of an epic 1,457-mile Square to Square Charity Cycle Challenge, most of them broke down in tears.
Friday, December 2, 2011
WIGHT LIVINGTHERE was no way Jillie Wheeler would ignore a suggestion she could direct her considerable energy towards helping a children’s charity.
Friday, November 25, 2011
WIGHT LIVINGWHATEVER we feel about the onslaught of the wheelie bins, they are coming.
We may choose to see them as the green monsters from the mainland coming to spoil our pretty island or we can choose to embrace them as a powerful symbol of our green credentials; a beacon of Ecoisland.
Friday, November 18, 2011
WIGHT LIVINGThe WI is a trendsetting organisation. It spearheaded the campaign to get a national screening programme for breast cancer, it was behind the launch of the Keep Britain Tidy group and it was WI members who produced the first tasteful nude charity calendar, of which there have been so many pale imitations.
Friday, November 11, 2011
WIGHT LIVINGTAKE a stroll along Newport Harbour and it’s difficult not to be struck by how down-at-heel it has become.
Friday, November 4, 2011
WIGHT LIVINGBEHIND the news of Red Funnel’s Christmas ‘present’ to the Island is an awful lot of history.
The company stepped in after Wightlink pulled out of providing ferries on Christmas Day.
Friday, October 28, 2011
WIGHT LIVING THE hammerhead crane, which has made an iconic contribution to Cowes for almost 100 years, is now in need of a lift itself.