An estimated 10,000 visitors headed to Barton’s Point Coastal Park at Sheerness on Bank Holiday Sunday to hear live bands, watch arena displays and support local businesses and charities as part of the Rotarians Sheppey Spectacular.

Work to remove masts from the wreck of Sheppey’s 'bomb ship' the SS Richard Montgomery is set to begin in September.

Sheppey taxi boss Ian McLennan has been banned from displaying a red Royal British Legion poppy on his vehicles by Swale council

Sheppey’s Summer Spectacular is returning to the Island this bank holiday Sunday after a two-year break and with new organisers.

While pop veterans Black Lace were helping to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Priory Hill Holiday Park in Leysdown, with Danny Dyer, The Seaside Pub (formerly The Beach) in Minster was drumming up a crowd at the other end of the Island with glam rock tribute band Glamstar.

Remy Noe was expelled from art school and airbrushed out of a landscape artist of the year TV show. But the painter from Sheppey has bounced back and is now hosting his own solo exhibition at the newly opened Sheerness Economical Society Gallery in Queenborough.

Crowds resorted to homemade viewers to warch the solar eclipse from the Isle of Sheppey

A mural of Turner's The Fighting Temeraire is being replaced by a mermaid, octopus and Thames sailing barges at The Leas, Minster, on the Isle of Sheppey.

Santus Circus has upped its game

Saturday morning kids' cinema is back on the Isle of Sheppey throughout the school summer holidays thanks to the Criterion Blue Town.

Swale council has received three Green Flags for its parks but none are on the Isle of Sheppey

Srudents of Leigh Academy Minster gave it their all for their end-of-term production of Fame! The Musical over two nights at the Sheppey Little Theatre and brought the house down with whoops and cheers from the audience.

A man and a duck were the stars of Minster village fair

What made Morecambe and Wise tick? Why were Eric and Ernie so funny? Comedy impressionist Christopher Gee goes behind the launchs at the Criterion Blue Town.

Organisers gear up for the final weekend on the month-long Festival of Sheppey and announce last-minute changes

More than 1,200 cyclists descended on the Isle of Sheppey over the summer solstice for the start of the 200-mile Chase The Sun endurance bike ride to Weston-super-Mare

Classical pianist Carol Anne Wells and flautist Mark Underwood are among the musicians performing at the Criterion Blue Town as part of the Festival of Sheppey

Bad weather has postponed the Festival of Sheppey's Coasts in Mind beach art event at Warden Bay by the Museum of London Archaeology

A dangerous driver who ran from a car crash after inflicting serious injuries on four innocent people has been jailed.

The leader of Swale Borough Council has hit out at plans by Minster GPs to boycott a new purpose-built healthy living centre in Sheerness