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Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team, Coastguard Rescue 175 helicopter, Bembridge RNLI Lifeboat and Police have all been involved in a rescue operation off Ventnor Esplanade this afternoon (Monday). Solent Coastguard were alerted to a kayaker in difficulty off Ventnor at around...

PHOTO GALLERY: A capsized boat has been hauled ashore by Freshwater Independent Lifeboat this afternoon (Monday).  The volunteer crew were called into action at just before 13:40 when a small pleasure boat started taking on water around 1 mile south...

A vulnerable man was rescued by HM Coastguard and the Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat early this morning (Monday). Coastguard Rescue Teams from Bembridge and Ventnor were called to Luccombe at around 03:30 following reports to Solent Coastguard that a...

The volunteer crew of Yarmouth RNLI launched their All Weather Lifeboat on Saturday afternoon following a call to Solent Coastguard from a sailing vessel with machinery failure in the Western Solent - the first of 3 shouts for the Island's...

The 2 men just small dots on the horizon, as seen from Ryde Ryde Inshore Rescue successfully located and rescued 2 paddle boarders on the Solent this afternoon (Saturday). The independent lifeboat was tasked by Solent Coastguard at 13:16 to...

The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are attending a wood pile fire on a farm near Alverstone this morning (Saturday). Crews from Newport and Sandown were called to Borthwood Farm on Alverstone Road at just before 23:30, with...

A woman has been conveyed to St Mary's Hospital after being hit by the boom of a boat in Cowes this evening (Friday). At just before 17:30 Cowes RNLI lifeboat was tasked to Shepards Marina by Solent Coastguard following reports...

Local father Jon Platt has been ordered to pay £2,000 and has been given a criminal record after being found guilty of taking his daughter on holiday as an unauthorised absence from school at the Isle of Wight Magistrates Court today (Friday)....

30-year-old Peter Kilshaw of Terminus Road, Cowes has been named as the victim of Wednesday's fatal road traffic collision between Shalfleet and Porchfield. As previously reported by Island Echo, emergency services were called to the scene of the crash on...

Wightlink have announced that they are to cancel 4 sailings on their Fishbourne-Portsmouth car ferry service tomorrow morning (Saturday) - that's in addition to the 4 cancellations today. On Wednesday the cross-Solent operator announced that a number of sailings were...