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Several centimetres of snow has fallen across the Isle of Wight today (Thursday) bringing roads and public transport to a near standstill - and the chaos is set to continue into tomorrow. Southern Vectis buses on all routes are being...

UPDATED: A revamp of the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service, aimed at improving response times and utilising firefighters more effectively, has been announced this afternoon (Wednesday) with a recommendation to keep all 10 fire stations open. Following a...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are tackling a small fire at HSS Hire in Newport this morning (Wednesday). Firefighters from Newport are on scene at Parkhurst Road, where a fire has broken out in the store...

VIDEO: A section of Bembridge Harbour has frozen over this morning (Wednesday) as the cold snap that has engulfed Britain for much of the week continues. Bitterly cold conditions and a hard frost brought the temperature right down overnight, resulting...

UPDATED: Bembridge RNLI and Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat are this morning (Wednesday) assisting a motor cruiser that is taking on water just a few hundred yards off Sandown Beach. Solent Coastguard requested the launch of Sandown’s independent lifeboat at...

UPDATED: A car has left the carriageway and gone over a bank on the main Sandown to Newport road at Blackwater this morning (Wednesday). Emergency services are in attendance outside Wight Building Materials and are understood to be assisting the...

The Met Office has issued an amber weather warning for snow on the Isle of Wight from 14:00 on Thursday afternoon. Forecasters say that snow showers moving from the South could intensify and become heavy on Thursday afternoon and into...

Police have released an e-fit image of a man they would like to speak to following a burglary in Newport. Shortly after 13:10 on Saturday 17th February, a 30-year-old man returned to his Fairlee Road home and saw a man...

VIDEO: 43-year-old Richard Moore from Newport has been sentenced to 16 months in prison and given a 10-year Sexual Harm Prevention Order after being caught trying to meet who he thought was a 12-year-old girl for sex. Moore was arrested...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are attending a block of flats in the heart of Ryde tonight (Sunday) over fears of a fire at the propery. 2 appliances from Ryde, 1 appliance from Newport and the Aerial...