Reports of potentially 2 dead dolphins on the beach at Gurnard prompted a call out for The Needles Coastguard Rescue Team this morning (Tuesday). Solent Coastguard tasked officers to investigate at 08:04. Once on scene, it was discovered that a...

More than 2,500 individuals have opened a Help to Save account across the South East and could be earning money on their savings, statistics from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have revealed. Help to Save is the Government-backed savings scheme...

Young people on the Isle of Wight are being given an opportunity to learn a new career and start a brand new job. Island employers are being urged to take on 19-24-year-olds as part of a government campaign to help...

Southern Water is to close a section of the Sandown to Newport cycle path for a period of 6 months as part of a project to protect a threatened eel. Last month Island Echo reported that the popular path would...

Thousands of children across the Island are being offered places at secondary schools this week, with 79% of parents offered a place for their child at their first choice school. Children up and down the country, including here on the...

Households living on a residential street in Binstead are disgruntled at proposals to implement a Residents' Parking Scheme, which would mean each household would have to pay £72 a year to park their car. The idea of Resident's Parking Schemes...

Concerns for the welfare of a group of people seen on Ryde Sands prompted a call out for Coastguards this evening (Monday). Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team we’re tasked at 18:17 to investigate concerns for persons possibly cut off by the...

Almost a decade after being convicted for smuggling £53million of cocaine, the hearing on an application for leave to appeal for 2 members of the ‘Freshwater Five’ has concluded at the Court of Appeal. The ‘Freshwater Five’ were sentenced to...

£600 of fines levied against a group of people volunteering their time to redecorate Ventnor Football Club have been officially dropped, Police have confirmed. As first reported by Island Echo yesterday (Sunday), the group of 6 volunteers were each slapped...

HMS Defender has sailed from Portsmouth for intensive training to prepare for missions around the world this spring on HMS Queen Elizabeth’s landmark deployment. The Type 45 destroyer has departed for sea trials and training to ready the ship’s cutting-edge...