Breaking News

The Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has transferred an elderly male patient to the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth this morning (Monday). The bright yellow life-saving helicopter landed at Wootton Recreation Ground at just before 10:15 following a...

Cowes RNLI went to the aid of a 20ft cabin cruiser at the mouth of the River Medina during the early hours of this morning (Sunday). The volunteer lifeboat crew launched at the request of Solent Coastguard at just after 03:30 after...

UPDATED: Cross-Solent operator Red Funnel has been put on the market by owners Infracapital Partners LP for more than £250million. Australian bank Macquarie has been instructed to sell the multi-million pound company on behalf of Infracapital, Prudential’s infrastructure fund. The bank has previous...

UPDATED: A car has left the carriageway, overturned and come to rest in a hedge near Shalfleet this morning (Sunday). Emergency services are in attendance at the scene on the main Newport to Yarmouth Road having been alerted to the...

Isle of Wight teacher Johanna McKay has been banned from teaching for at least 5 years after being found to turn up for work drunk and falsely claiming that she had leukaemia in order to cover up her boozy antics....

A rural road between Rookley and Niton has now reopened following a crash which left a car on its side earlier this morning (Friday). Police were called to Chequers Inn Road between the pub and Bohemia Corner at just gone...

Hip-hop pioneers Stereo MC's are to headline the Friday night of this year's Rhythmtree festival, which returns for the 8th consecutive year on 14th, 15th and 16th July 2017. Renowned for their stunning live shows, Stereo MC’s took dance into the mainstream...

35-year-old Terri Spragg, who had sex with a 14-year-old boy at her home in Ryde, has been sentenced to 3 years in prison as a result of her original sentence at the Isle of Wight Crown Court being overturned by...

Forensic officers examine the scene in Northwood UPDATED: Motor Neurone Disease sufferer William Maguire, 72, committed suicide by taking a lethal cocktail of drugs in the garage of his home in Northwood, alongside a bid to gas himself in his...

A verdict of suicide has been recorded in the death of 44-year-old Anna Louise Davies, who hanged herself from the bedroom door of her flat in Oakfield, Ryde last July. As previously reported by Island Echo, Police officers and paramedics...