Ian Hayden pushing ahead 3 Wightlink-Wight Mountain Cycle Race Team riders went back to Goodwood last Tuesday (29th May) for the 6th summer series race held by Southdown Velo. The Isle of Wight's Adam Holleyman, Ian Hayden and Matthew Allsopp lined...

Medina IOW Parkrun at the Appley course in Ryde will be 1 of hundreds of ‘parkruns’ around the UK to host a special NHS birthday celebration event on Saturday (9th June 2018). The initiative, known as ‘Parkrun for the NHS’, aims...

As part of national Volunteers’ Week (1st-7th June) Hampshire Constabulary are recognising the valuable contribution these members of the public make to the policing family on the Isle of Wight. Later today (Monday) a celebrating volunteers event will be held...

The National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) station situated at The Needles has been recognised with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service for 2018, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. National Coastwatch Institution is a fully voluntary group...

Wightlink has been recognised for promoting and selling Isle of Wight food and drink with the award of a prestigious Gold Wight Marque by the Royal Isle of Wight Agricultural Society. The Wight Marque scheme is aimed at increasing the...

Playing on the penny pushers in the arcade or getting drunk at Colonel Bogey's are well and truly memories now as Sandown's Wight City complex has finally been demolished. Work begun back in January to bring the derelict building to...

The Cowes Floating Bridge remains suspended tonight (Sunday) having been pulled from service more than 5 hours ago due to what has been described as an 'overheating' issue. Floating Bridge No. 6 is currently moored up on the East Cowes...

A 41-year-old man from Ryde is said to have sustained life-changing injuries in yesterday's motorcycle crash on Beaper Shute, between Ryde and Brading. As previously reported by Island Echo, a Range Rover Evoque towing a metal trailer collided with an...

UPDATED: Emergency services are responding to a plane crash in Sandown this afternoon (Sunday). A light aircraft has come down at Shanklin and Sandown Golf Club, close to Sandown Airport. The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service has mobilised...

Wightlink’s staff at Ryde Pier sprang into action when a customer reported seeing an exhausted dog swimming half a mile out to sea near the end of the pier at 07:00 this morning (Sunday). Scott Harvey, Mike Parsons and Dave...