Newport are just 180 minutes away from a return to the Wessex Premier. The County Town club face bogey team Petersfield Town at Smallbrook Stadium in the semi final of the Wessex Division 1 play offs at 19:45 this evening...

A British warship returning from Jamaica - HMS Assurance - carrying a fortune in silver coins stuck Goose Rock off The Needles on 24th April 1753. The loss of the frigate was due to the foolhardy actions of  David Patterson...

Kev Chant Racing kicked off at the Isle of Wight Mountain Bike Centre with the 2nd Round of the MTB XC Series on a newly built course which would test the most experienced riders. The Wightlink-Wight Mountain Cycle Racing Team...

 2 Isle of Wight 16-year-olds - Lewis Johnstone and Ryan Cates - have battled their way through to the national table tennis finals in Derbyshire in June. The pair were among 9 budding table tennis stars from the Island to...

Whitecroft & Barton Sports kept the pressure up on Division 1 front runners Shanklin by seeing off West Wight at Sandy Lane on Saturday afternoon. W&B were bolstered by the appearance of Newport's Martin McDonough in a red shirt. The...

Ventnor railway stations around 1900 In the final part of our Isle of Wight Railways series, for now at least, Island Echo examines various plans for tramways and a funicular railway at Ventnor that unfortunately never came to pass. Did...

Newport have taken 2nd spot in Wessex League Division 1 by beating Fleetlands at Powder Monkey Park on Saturday (22nd April). The runners up position is of vital importance as it gives Port home advantage in the play off semi...

The Feast Day of St Arwald - the last Jutish King of the Isle of Wight and the last pagan king in Anglo-Saxon England - is celebrated today (22nd April). The pagan Jutes - a people who had migrated to...

Newport travel to Fleetlands near Gosport needing a win in their final game of the season to remain in the runners-up spot in the Wessex Division 1 table. A 2nd place finish would ensure home advantage for the County Town...

Frank Linsly James The explorer, adventurer and wealthy businessman Frank Linsly James was gored to death by an elephant in Gabon, West Africa, 133 years ago today. Sadly, 21st April – the day of Frank James’s death – was his...