Referee Nathan Cook angered Newport IW FC management, players and fans by abandoning Saturday’s match at Beatrice Avenue at half time, with the Island side leading 1-0 after a Spike Pearce header in the 35th minute. Despite the game having...

Photo: Graham Brown Cowes Sports FC fielded a depleted side for the visit of high-flying Horndean on Saturday due to the marriage of first team regular, Tom Dye, and the attendance of a number of other players at the wedding....

2 Isle of Wight teams will be in action in the Wessex League this Saturday (19th October). In the Wessex Premier League, Cowes Sports - who are currently in 19th position - take on 6th placed Horndean at Westwood Park. The...

East Cowes Vics travelled to Weymouth Street in Wiltshire last Saturday for their clash with Warminster Town in the first round proper of the FA Vase. The game was played on a soft pitch that held up well despite the...

Newport IW FC lost to Western League's Bridgwater Town in the first round proper of the FA Vase on a damp and dismal afternoon at Beatrice Avenue on Saturday. Newport began the game fielding a close to full strength side,...

Sophie Dawes (Waxworks museum) Impoverished St Helens fisherman's daughter Sophie Dawes - who became the mistress of wealthy French aristocrat Duc de Bourbon and inherited a considerable fortune - passed away on this day in 1840. The life of this...

Jabez Balfour Island Echo examines the colourful career of Jabez Spencer Balfour, whose Liberator company enclosed Brading Haven before he fled to Argentina and was imprisoned in Parkhurst for a multi-million pound fraud. Did you know that the man who...

Island Echo examines the 4 current licensed premises in Yarmouth - the settlement with the highest density of pubs per person in the whole of the Isle of Wight. The population of Yarmouth (according to the 2011 census) is just...

Mew Langton - probably the Isle of Wight's most famous brewery - had 144 pubs dotted around the Isle of Wight at its zenith, around 1 for every 1,000 inhabitants. It has even been claimed that Mew Langton produced the...