A fire has this evening engulfed a 75x50m area of grassland and bushes on St Boniface Downs in Ventnor. One pumping appliance and a water bowser from Ventnor, alongside one pumping appliance from Shanklin, are currently on the scene damping...

UPDATED: Coastguard rescue teams were called this morning (Friday) to reports that a piece of ordnance, believed to be a hand grenade, had washed up on a beach on the South Coast of the Island. Island Echo received reports at  11:57...

ISLAND dignitaries will join together at 10:00 on Monday for a flag raising ceremony to honour the armed forces. In a change from previous years, the specially commissioned Armed Forces Day flag will be hoisted in St Thomas’ Square rather...