Matrons Julie Hailes and Jan Appell from the Isle of Wight NHS Trust have braved the shave to help raise funds for Mountbatten Hospice. When they heard that this year’s Walk the Wight had been cancelled due to the coronavirus...

Photo: Jessica Williams A plane has crash landed into the Solent between Cowes and Calshot this afternoon (Sunday). The light aircraft came down unexpectedly whilst flying West to East sometime before 15:00. Calshot RNLI's inshore lifeboats have been tasked to...

Peter Hammond - the 8th club professional in Shanklin & Sandown Golf Club's 120-year history - is this week celebrating 30 years since he was appointed as Head Professional at the club. Peter started playing golf in 1973 and was...

After the brilliant success of their previous anti-bullying poster competition, Network Ryde successfully obtained extra funding from the Police and Crime Commissioner to hold another project. The funding enabled Network Ryde to buy 20 art resource packs that included paints,...

Extremely vulnerable Islanders who have been shielding over the past 10 weeks can safely start to spend time outdoors from tomorrow (Monday), it has been announced. 2.2million clinically extremely vulnerable people across the country will be able to go outside...

Police have closed Blackwater Hollow on the outskirts of Newport this evening (Saturday) following a road traffic collision involving a cyclist. A young female has sustained what is being described as a serious leg injury as a result of a...

Islanders are being urged to keep using the COVID-19 contact tracing app, which will see a big update released next week. The app was released on the Isle of Wight to much fanfare, but things have gone somewhat quiet over...

199 cases of COVID-19 have now been confirmed on the Isle of Wight, according to the latest statistical information available from Public Health England. Previously, the total sat at 198 but a further case has been confirmed in today’s (Saturday's)...

HM Coastguard and Police have responded to reports of a missing child at the beach in Sandown this afternoon (Saturday). The alarm was raised by the boy's grandmother at around 16:00 and resulted in a large scale response from local...

31-year-old Rhys Patrick Davies has admitted causing grievous bodily harm to a man in Sandown last month. The 35-year-old victim was left with a fractured skull in the incident on Crescent Road on 2nd April, as previously reported by Island...