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UPDATED: Police are appealing for information after a seagull was shot with a crossbow in Newport earlier today (Tuesday). The incident is said to have taken place before 09:30 this morning on Worsley Road off Hunnyhill. A local resident found the...

UPDATED: Emergency services are attending a serious, multi vehicle road traffic collision in Carisbrooke this afternoon (Tuesday) 2 cars have collided on Carisbrooke Road close to Cedar Hill roundabout. 1 of the vehicles has also crashed into a garden wall. 2 fire...

A woman, seen to be struggling for some time to regain her capsized sailing dinghy, led to Solent Coastguard requesting an immediate launch of Cowes RNLI lifeboat earlier today (Tuesday). The woman’s plight, off Gilkicker Point near Gosport, was first...

The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are attending a fuel spill at a petrol station in East Cowes this afternoon (Tuesday). Around 10 litres of diesel has been spilt at the GULF garage on York Avenue and is...

Photo: Needles Coastguard Rescue Team UPDATED: A joint operation to airlift a woman from a remote spot in the West Wight involving The Needles Coastguard Rescue Team, Coastguard Rescue helicopter 175 and the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service is underway this...

It was a long night for the volunteer lifeboat crew of Bembridge RNLI, who launched during the very early hours of this morning (Sunday) to take up the tow of a 39ft racing yacht. Bembridge's All Weather Lifeboat (ALB) was...

A small sink hole has appeared on a quiet residential road in Ryde today (Saturday). Residents on Osborne Road in the town spotted the 2ft by 2ft hole at around 16:00 this afternoon before reporting the issue to Island Roads....

Fears of a boat fire off the north coast of the Island sparked an immediate launch for Cowes RNLI earlier this evening (Friday). Solent Coastguard paged the volunteer lifeboat crew at 19:55 after a 35ft motor boat reported it was...

National discount retailer Poundland are to close one of their Newport stores next week, Island Echo can reveal. The former HMV premises opened as 99p stores in November 2013 before converting to Poundland at the end of March last year....

UPDATED: Andrew Turner has resigned as the Island's MP this afternoon (Friday) just hours after he is alleged to have made homophobic comments to a class full of students. It is said that the Conservative MP of 16 years told A-Level politics...