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EXCLUSIVE PICTURES: HM Coastguard, the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service, Police and ambulance crews are all involved in an ongoing rescue operation in Ventnor this afternoon (Sunday). Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team and Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team have been joined...

Cowes RNLI lifeboat raced to the aid of a man whose condition caused serious concern after his kayak capsized on the choppy Solent earlier today (Sunday). The incident occurred off the entrance to Beaulieu River, but before the lifeboat arrived on scene...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are attending a small kitchen fire in Bembridge tonight (Saturday).  2 appliances from Bembridge and Ryde were called to the residential address on Egerton Road at just before 22:45. Island Echo understands...

Ryde Inshore Rescue came to the aid of a vessel aground on Ryde Sands earlier this afternoon (Saturday). The independent lifeboat service was tasked by Solent Coastguard to reports of a yacht in difficulty to the north of the Isle of...

Debris found at Brambles Chine (Photo: @NeedlesCRT) Coastguard officers from The Needles Coastguard Rescue Team have been kept busy over the past 24 hours, responding to a casualty at Fort Victoria and investigating reports of debris on a beach. The...

The discovery of a man 'armed with a machete' in the kitchen of a family home in St Helens is thought to be the reason behind a large Police response to the village earlier today (Friday). Unconfirmed reports in to...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are attending a car fire at a farm on the outskirts of Newport this lunchtime (Friday). 1 appliance from Newport was mobilised to Noke Farm off the main Newport to Cowes...

Atomic Kitten English rapper, singer, songwriter and television personality Professor Green is to headline this year's inaugural Fairweather Festival in Sandown, to take place at Los Altos Park on 2nd September. 90's legends The Chuckle Brothers and girl group Atomic...

An inquest has this week concluded that the death of 10-year-old Ashton Tuckey from Binstead, which occurred after a duvet cover being used as a curtain became wrapped around his neck, was an accident. Paramedics from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service were...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have erected a large cordon around an leaf-covered electricity pole that has caught fire in Colwell Bay this evening (Thursday). It is understood an overhead electricity cable has set light to the...