A new Clinical Academic Skills Suite has been officially opened at St Mary’s Hospital in Newport. The facility will benefit clinical staff working across the Isle of Wight NHS Trust including doctors, nurses and allied health professionals, offering a dedicated...

Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team were tasked to assist the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service on the revetment between Sandown and Shanklin last night (Wednesday). A walker had fallen down the cliff steps at Lake, close to The Strollers Cafe, sustaining...

The Salvation Army’s Isle of Wight Corps (church) will be opening its doors to allow rough sleepers on the Isle of Wight to seek shelter from the heat. Due to the extreme temperatures that are predicted on the Island in...

The alert is valid for areas inside the white line. The mercury is expected to hit a scorching 34c on the Isle of Wight tomorrow (Thursday), according to Island Echo's official weather forecasters IW Met Service. Temperatures are predicted to...

Mountbatten has launched the search for a new Chair of its Board of Trustees, who will help ensure that no-one across the Isle of Wight or beyond faces death, dying or bereavement without the charity’s expert care and support. The...

A mechanical issue with Wightlink's Wight Ryder 2 is taking longer than expected to be repaired, resulting in an extended hourly service between Ryde and Portsmouth until at least 31st July. As previously reported by Island Echo, a mechanical gremlin...

Nina Conti will be bringing her jaw-dropping and completely hilarious human puppet ventriloquism act to Shanklin Theatre, where she has agreed to appear in a one-off performance in aid of local charity The Wight Brainy Bunch. Nina has not only...

The West Wight Tennis Tournament was held on Sunday 7th July in aid of South Wight Area Youth, raising over £2,500 for the charity. The annual event is for mixed doubles and for 2019 was held at Westover Park by...

Olivo in Ryde has closed its doors for refurbishment today (Wednesday) at the same time that it is confirmed that liquidators have been called in to take control of the company. A notice in The Gazette states that there is...

Firefighters from Ryde are attending a small cooker fire at a residential address in the town this lunchtime (Wednesday).  1 appliance and an officer have been mobilised to St John’s Wood Road following a 999 call by a concerned neighbour...