DRIVER FLEES AFTER CAR HITS SIGN AND SPINS IN VENTNOR
11th July 2026
Warren is Island Echo's sports reporter, predominately covering football matches across Wessex League and Divisions 1 and 2 of the Isle of Wight League. He also researches and writes all heritage stories, which have quickly become a reader favourite. Warren is fluent in 3 languages.
Ventnor turned on the style to convincingly beat an abrasive Christchurch squad in Hampshire Counties 3 at Watcombe Bottom on Saturday (12th October). The game hardly started promisingly for Ventnor when the hard-working Nathan Frampton was yellow carded in the...
Read moreDetailsFinley Manser-Grundy travelled to Southampton for Round 5 of the Wessex League CX Series on Sunday to race in the U8s age category. This was Finley's 2nd cycle cross race, so he had more of an understanding of the pace...
Read moreDetails23-year-old Royal Engineer Kit Maytum - who was diagnosed with lung cancer last year - has raised over £2,500 for Young Lives vs Cancer by completing the Lisbon Marathon in the impressive time of 3 hours 51 minutes. Kit -...
Read moreDetails101 young people have worked with professional creatives, on 3 youth-led creative projects, to make a difference to their communities in the 1st year of the Young Cultural Changemakers programme run by Artswork on the Isle of Wight. The projects...
Read moreDetailsKade Woodford hit the back of the net 4 times as holders Whitecroft & Barton Sports reached the next round of the Challenge Cup by putting 6 goals past Binstead at Sandy Lane on Saturday (12th October). All Kade's goals...
Read moreDetailsORP Thunder (Grom) and ORP Lightning (Błyskawica) were the world's 2 fastest destroyers when launched for the Polish navy in Cowes in 1936. In Britain, shipbuilding is most associated with Newcastle. However, in the century between 1865 and 1965, J...
Read moreDetailsAll 3 Isle of Wight Wessex League sides - Cowes Sports, East Cowes Victoria and Newport - drew this afternoon (Saturday 12th October). VICTORIANS FIRE BLANKS AT MAGPIES East Cowes Victoria were held to a goalless draw for a 2nd...
Read moreDetailsIn the only Wessex League fixture to be played on the Isle of Wight today, 2nd-place East Cowes Victoria take on 3rd-place Alresford Town at Beatrice Avenue. Vics occupied top spot in Division 1 after beating Fawley last Saturday; however,...
Read moreDetails46 brave Islanders have raised £25,000 to support local people affected by cancer by taking part in either a 10,000ft skydive or a 160ft bungee jump challenge at Sandown Airport, organised by Wessex Cancer Support. 15-year-old Louie Wakefield was the...
Read moreDetailsNewport (IoW) proposed new ground Construction finally began this week on Newport IW's new stadium at the Racecourse in Whippingham. With the main stand at Newport's former St George's Park ground having been demolished, much of the equipment used has...
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