The Isle of Wight's coast is dotted with caves, many reputedly used to store contraband during smuggling times. However, possibly the most famous historical cave on the Isle of Wight - associated with a gruesome murder - was to be...

Cowes Sports comfortably beat Hythe & Dibden away by a 2-goal margin in the Wessex Premier Division on Saturday afternoon (28th December). The Yachtsmen were the only Isle of Wight side with a competitive fixture on Saturday, with Vics and...

An escaped convict's Christmas holiday came to a dramatic end at the Royal Marine Hotel in Cowes on 28th December 1924. William Whitworth Miller - a notorious international criminal and escapee - had escaped from a Parkhurst Prison working party...

In a one-off edition of Isle of Wight Place Names, Island Echo examines some of the curious monikers of locations in and around the county town of Newport. If you were born, brought up or live in Newport, have you...

The Ernie Moore Trophy is a charity event that has been running for over 20 years, raising money for the hospice.  There is a 9-hole competition with Scratch and Handicap prizes. Zane Cohen managed to claim both titles with an...

Landlords East Cowes Victoria comprehensively beat tenants Newport in front of 658 spectators at Beatrice Avenue this afternoon (Boxing Day, 26th December 2024). This was the biggest crowd by far in Wessex Division 1 in the season to date and...

A Ryde woman had a lucky escape when she opened her canvas holdall on 26th December 1994 to discover a live bomb inside. The 24-year-old woman, from Slade Road in Oakfield, had bought the bag in October of that year...

'Ghostly revels' at Knighton Gorges, near Newchurch, hit the national headlines over the Christmas period back in 1924 - 100 years ago. Partying at Knighton Gorges during the Roaring Twenties was a somewhat strange idea, as the manor house had...

A bumper crowd is expected at Beatrice Avenue on Boxing Day when East Cowes Victoria face Newport at midday. Attendances for this fixture have risen steadily over recent years: 324, 416, 523 and 565 - this year, Vics are hoping...

For a little over half a century Whitwell Station acted as the main transport hub for Whitwell and the sparsely populated South Wight area. Many Isle of Wight stations - for example Godshill and Calbourne - were some distance from...