Government grant payments of between £10,000 and £25,000 are expected to be paid to hundreds of Island businesses this week to support them during the coronavirus crisis. £62.8million has been given to the Isle of Wight Council to distribute to...

Drastic timetable changes on all cross-Solent travel routes are coming into force as Islanders and visitors alike are urged to undertake essential travel only. Red Funnel's Red Jet service is now down to just 4 early morning crossings and 5...

32-year-old Rhys Patrick Davies, of no fixed abode, has been charged with Grievous Bodily Harm after a 35-year-old was left with a fractured skull following an assault in Sandown on Thursday. Davies has been questioned by officers over the weekend...

Her Majesty The Queen will address the nation later on this evening (Sunday) in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, which has effected citizens in every part of the country. Reassurance is expected to be a strong theme throughout the...

31-year-old Robert Church of Steep Hill Road, Shanklin has been charged with assaulting 3 Police officers whilst they were executing their duty at an address in Ryde yesterday (Saturday). As exclusively reported by Island Echo earlier today, 1 officer suffered...

32 - that is the official number of confirmed coronavirus cases on the Isle of Wight, according to Public Health England figures released this afternoon (Sunday). A total of 7 cases have been confirmed since yesterday with one of the youngest...

Firefighters have rushed to a block of flats in Ryde this afternoon (Sunday) - but the incident has quickly been scaled back.  3 appliances - 2 from Ryde and 1 from Newport - were mobilised to Union Road at just...

A fire involving rubbish in the back garden of a home in Ryde has been extinguished by firefighters this afternoon (Sunday). 1 appliance was mobilised to Field View in Haylands at around 14:40 when the fire service was alerted to...

The British Army have begun transforming 3 buildings into new wards at St Mary’s Hospital in Newport to create an additional 200 beds. A detachment of 40 men and women from the Scots Guards arrived on the Island on Saturday...

A 31-year-old man from Shanklin has been arrested after a number of Police officers were assaulted during an incident in Ryde yesterday evening (Saturday). Officers responded to School Street, Oakfield at just before 18:00 following reports of a disturbance at...