Mini festival villages at Southampton and Isle of Wight terminals, along with extra sailings from Red Funnel, should provide a great start for Isle of Wight Festival-goers
Last Cafe Scientifique of the year with a Dr Rita Tojeiro, a researcher in the Cosmology Department at Portsmouth University, who'll be crossing the Solent to give a talk on cosmology.
You can view the plans on the Isle of Wight council's Website, but the public consultation for comments won't open until it's safe for site notices to be put up
Isle of Wight songwriter, poet and musician, Paul Armfield, shares his top five things that you shouldn't miss if you're going to Bestival 2012. This is the first part in a series of features running over the next three days.