UPDATED: A multi-agency operation to rescue a person from the water is underway in Sandown this morning (Saturday). Police, Paramedics, 2 Coastguard Rescue Teams and Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat (SSILB) are all on scene at the Esplanade in Sandown. 5...

UPDATED: Police are asking for the public's help in locating missing 44-year-old Darren Jones tonight (Friday). Darren was last seen on Black Knight Close in East Cowes at 07:30 this morning. His family haven’t seen him since and are becoming...

UPDATED: A search is underway for a vulernable missing person in Whippingham tonight (Friday). Police officers are present near St Mildred’s Church on Beatrice Avenue on the outskirs of East Cowes. It’s here that WightSAR - the Island’s voluntary search and...

A car has left the road and travelled down an embankment near the railway line in Ryde this evening (Friday). 2 fire appliances from Ryde, Police, an ambulance crew and an ambulance officer are all on scene at a private...

This is your new weekly round-up of the latest court news, covering some of the cases heard by the Isle of Wight Combined Court over the past week. The convicted person’s name, age, address and details of the charge(s) and sentence...

CLA South East is urging farmers, landowners and members of the public to be on alert as we enter the peak hare coursing season. Hare coursing involves using dogs to chase, catch and kill hares, often with gambling on the...

Southern Vectis helped make the Isle of Wight’s Celebrating Age Festival Week a big success - by laying on 2 special events. The local bus operator arranged a mystery tour on Monday for some of the Island’s older residents -...

Bookings for this year's Isle of Wight Literary Festival are flooding in with particular interest in speakers who explore and explain the background to today’s big national and international problems. War zones, Russian politics, immigration, and political party turmoil are...

UPDATED: An adventurous 4-year-old boy has discovered several bags of prescription drugs and an amount of cash stashed under a bush near his school in Newport today (Friday). The shocking find occurred whilst the youngster and his mum were walking...

Yarmouth RNLI lifeboat is making best speed towards the cross-Channel ferry 'Commodore Clipper' this lunchtime (Friday) to evacuate an unwell passenger. Solent Coastguard requested the assistance of the All Weather Lifeboat at just gone 11:30 following reports that a passenger...