The force was strong for WightFibre and UKSA at the Charity Premiere of Star Wars VIII: The Last Jedi which took place at Cineworld, Newport on Thursday night. A capacity audience of 292 VIP guests and competition winners came together...

Islanders are being invited to give their views on how the Isle of Wight Council should spend its money next year. The council has launched its budget consultation and residents, businesses, the voluntary sector and town and parish councils are...

The Keep Island Line in the Franchise (KILF) campaign has welcomed a willingness from South Western Railway (SWR) to adjust Island Line timetables in light of proposed changes to mainland rail services to and from Portsmouth. SWR is currently consulting...

UPDATED: Police and ambulance crews are responding to a road traffic collision on Middle Road near Freshwater this morning (Saturday). The incident, which has seen a car collide into a hedge, has occurred near to Afton Road. Island Echo readers...

Ztam's Kelly Murdoch. Photos: Graham Reading Photography A new art gallery which aims to showcase local talent whilst also supporting the good work of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice has opened at the hospice’s Newport shop. The new Ztam Art Gallery...

Police say they have closed their investigation into the death of a 53-year-old man following an incident on a building site in Newport last year. Emergency services were called to Atkinson Drive on 13th October 2016 after a bricklayer suffered...

UPDATED: The Island's Central Convenience stores are set to be transformed into Bargain Booze Select Convenience outlets as a result of a £25million buy out today (Friday). Conviviality, the owners of Bargain Booze, are in the process of buying a total of...

The future of secondary education in Sandown has taken another significant step forward after the Isle of Wight Council published a report yesterday (Thursday) recommending an alteration to the upper age limit of The Bay CE Primary School from 11...

Be Bright, Be Seen was the dress code at Island schools recently as youngsters learnt about road safety when travelling to and from school during darker mornings and evenings. Wight Cycle Training visited a number of schools to deliver a...

Councillor Chris Whitehouse was presented with a degree certificate at a ceremony in London on Tuesday. Cllr Whitehouse (Conservative, Newport West Ward)  recently completed a Master of Arts degree in Contemporary Ethics at London University’s specialist philosophy institution, Heythrop College. The...