DRIVER FLEES AFTER CAR HITS SIGN AND SPINS IN VENTNOR
11th July 2026
Darren heads up Island Echo not only as Editor, but as Publisher and Founder too. He specialises in breaking news and has worked in the local news market for the past 15 years.
It’s chaotic, it’s colourful - and it’s back! Following the sell-out success of last summer’s Inflatable Rainbow Run, the event will return to Sandown Airport on Sunday 28th July 2019. Walk, run or dance your way through the happiest 3km...
Read moreDetailsPremier Ford, the Island’s Ford Store, is launching a special Motability Roadshow at Yarmouth C of E Primary School on Thursday 11th April. This event is dedicated to the Motability Scheme so you can learn more about the leading car...
Read moreDetailsBat expert Adrian Bicker is regularly travelling from his home in Dorset to the Isle of Wight this spring to gather data for what is thought to be the largest scale area-monitoring survey for bat activity ever undertaken. Wightlink is...
Read moreDetailsA training exercise turned into a real shout for Cowes RNLI when they were tasked to Totland Bay earlier this evening (Tuesday). Around an hour into a training session for prospective helms, Solent Coastguard hailed Cowes Lifeboat with an immediate...
Read moreDetailsFollowing the popular BBC 1 series 'The Great British Sewing Bee', The Sewing Studio presented an Isle of Wight version last Friday (29th March). 65 sewers flocked to the Isle of Wight Pearl near Brighstone to compete in creating a...
Read moreDetailsOffice Outlet on the Isle of Wight will be closing its doors for good this week, administrators for the troubled company have today (Tuesday) confirmed. The retailer entered administration last month putting the future of the chain's stores at risk. It...
Read moreDetailsPlans to return white-tailed eagles to the South of England have taken a step forward after a licence was issued by the Government’s wildlife licensing authority, Natural England. The licence to reintroduce Britain’s largest bird of prey was granted to...
Read moreDetailsThe Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has been called to Yarmouth this lunchtime (Tuesday). Life-saving doctors and paramedics have landed on The Green in Yarmouth at the request of the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service. The yellow and...
Read moreDetailsPolice are attending a collision between a bus and a car in the centre of Ryde this morning (Tuesday). The incident has occurred on Dover Street at the crossroads junction with Melville Street. A Citroen C3 - which according to...
Read moreDetailsThose trying to call the Isle of Wight Council are having difficulties doing so this morning (Tuesday) due to a technical issue. The Council have apologised to callers who are trying to get through to the call centre at Westridge....
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