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Depeche Mode, The Killers, Kasabian and Liam Gallagher have been announced as the headliners of Isle of Wight Festival 2018. The Script, Van Morrison, Blossoms and James Bay will also perform at Seaclose Park in Newport between 21st-24th June next year - 50 years...

The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have worked with colleagues from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service to extricate a casualty from a car in Carisbrooke tonight (Saturday). 2 appliances from Newport were called to the driveway of...

UPDATED: The main road from Blackwater to Arreton has been closed due to what is understood to be a propane gas leak from a lorry. Thr Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service has 3 appliances on scene at the...

The driver of a Peugeot 206 has escaped any lasting injury after crashing into a lamp post at Whippingham. Police were called to the scene at Racecourse Roundabout at around 06:00 this morning (Saturday) after the small hatchback smashed into...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are attending a single-vehicle road traffic collision outside Branstone Farm on the A3056 this evening (Friday). 2 fire appliances from Newport are on scene after the Peugeot 206 rolled onto its...

Yarmouth RNLI launched to the aid of a 13m yacht in difficulty in the Western Solent this afternoon (Friday). The Yarmouth All Weather Lifeboat was requested to launch by Solent Coastguard at 13:14 following a call for help from a...

UPDATED: 31-year-old Laura Harding is to appear before the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court this morning (Friday) charged with 2 counts of engaging in sexual communication with a child following a sting by the well-known paedophile vigilante group ‘Guardians of the North'....

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service is in attendance at GKN Aerospace in East Cowes this morning (Friday). 2 appliances from Newport, 1 from East Cowes, the Aerial Ladder Platform from Ryde and the Incident Command Unit...

UPDATED: Fire crews from across the Isle of Wight are tackling a large barn fire at Ninham Farm near Apse Heath tonight (Thursday). Appliances from Ryde, Sandown, Shanklin, Ventnor, Newport, Freshwater and East Cowes are all on scene. They were...

Radiated heat from an electric heater sparked the blaze which killed pensioner Dennis Derek Driscoll in his own home in Newport, an inquest has today (Thursday) heard. Mr Driscoll, 79, was killed on the morning of 6th April this year when...