Residents of Summerhouse - a specialist home in Freshwater for people with mental health difficulties - were treated to a trip on a power boat along the West Wight Coast last week. Picked up from Yarmouth, 3 lucky residents headed...

the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones says she’s delighted to announce a number of successful funding applications that will target rural crime across Hampshire and the Isle of...

2 Exmoor ponies are getting their teeth stuck into vital conservation work on the Isle of Wight. Logan and Luther are the first 2 grazers to Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust’s rewilding project at Wilder Little Duxmore. Their...

Local fish and chip shop Lake Fish Bar is to close next month after serving the community for over 2 decades. In a post on their Facebook page, it has been announced that the owners of the family-run business have...

Island Echo always welcome letters to the editor, which may of course not reflect the views of the publication and its staff. Letter to the editor - Tuesday 8th August 2023 "Keith Greenfield, the CEO and Director of Wightlink (WL)...

Southern Water has welcomed an announcement that Macquarie Asset Management has agreed to invest an additional £550million of equity into the Southern Water group.  This follows their £1.1 billion equity injection into the Southern Water group in September 2021. The...

Hailsham-based track racer Edward Kennett (pictured) was a class above the opposition as he showed no mercy to the other 15 riders vying for the 2023 Nora British Upright Championship sponsored by Freelance Installations at the Smallbrook Stadium on Thursday...

An absence of a critical crew member has forced Wightlink to cancel a raft of sailings on its FastCat service this weekend. Wightlink says that they haven't been able to find suitable cover in time, so the cross-Solent operator has...

Mark Cooper, ex-head of BBC Music and creator and producer of 'Later...With Jools Holland' is coming to Dimbola Museum and Galleries later this month. Now, after leaving his job as head of music television, BBC Studios in 2020, where Mark...

Police and Crime Commissioner Donna Jones The Police and Crime Commissioner, Donna Jones, will be holding her latest public Q&A session with Chief Constable Scott Chilton next week. COPS (Commissioner’s Oversight of Policing Services) will be live-streamed on the PCC’s...