The Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has issued a special safety bulletin to all mariners that use GPS to prepare for a rollover event that will occur on 6th April 2019. On 6th April, navigation data from some older GPS...

Aspiring pop/electronic solo artist Emily Wild is launching her debut single 'Authority' on Friday (29th March). The 21-year-old Islander, who is known by the pseudonym 'Emellia', is currently completing a commercial music degree at the Isle of Wight's Platform One...

Police have cordoned off the main Sandown to Shanklin road and are conducting a crash investigation following a serious road traffic collision during the early hours of this morning (Saturday). A male motorcyclist has been rushed to hospital in a...

£99,000 has been granted by the Government towards an £840,000 project to create a micro brewery, micro museum, café, gallery and shops on the High Street in Sandown. Innovative businesses, historic buildings, new museums and the restoration of much-loved coastal...

Emergency services are attending a crash on Carpenters Road between Brading and St Helens tonight (Friday). 2 fire appliances from Ryde are on scene near to Oasis, where it is understood 1 female is feared trapped inside a VW Polo....

Retained firefighters from Freshwater were mobilised to reports of a fire on a farm near Compton earlier this evening (Friday) - but all wasn't quite as it seemed. 1 appliance was mobilised by fire control at around 19:25 when a...

This is your bi-weekly round up of the latest court news, covering some of the cases heard by the Isle of Wight Combined Court up until Friday 22nd March 2019. The defendant’s name, age, address and details of the charge(s) and sentence are...

A number of Isle of Wight properties and garages were among 134 lots being sold by Clive Emson Auctioneers in Portsmouth today (Friday). A freehold lock-up garage at the back of 19 Spencer Road in Ryde fetched £21,500, which was £7,500...

An Isle of Wight woman is set to take on a 70-mile sponsored walk as part of her fundraising campaign to purchase of an emergency defibrillator for her local community. Sheran Brown, of Seaview, is looking to raise enough funds...

An Eye Clinic Liaison Officer (ECLO) from The Royal National Institute of Blind People is one of the organisers behind a Sight Loss Awareness Day which will take place tomorrow (Saturday 23rd) in Newport. Laura Gooljar, who is based at...