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A local Isle of Wight councillor was airlifted to safety yesterday evening (Sunday) after becoming stuck on the cliff coastal path between St Lawrence and Niton. Ventnor Coastguard Rescue Team, Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team and Coastguard Rescue 104 helicopter from...

UPDATED: The Island's volunteer search and rescue organisation, WightSAR, are this afternoon (Monday) conducting a search of the Bonchurch Landslip area alongside HM Coastguard, as they join the search for a missing man from London. As previously reported by Island...

UPDATED: Fire crews from the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are attending an incident at BAE Systems in Cowes tonight (Friday). At least 3 appliances from Newport and Cowes are on scene at the radar testing site on...

UPDATED: A search of the Solent area is underway this evening (Friday) after a mayday call was heard from what is believed to be a light aircraft. Coastguard Rescue 104 from Lee-on-Solent was scrambled at just before 19:00 after a...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight has voted to leave the European Union in the EU Referendum, with 49,173 Islanders voting to Leave against 30,207 to Remain - a Leave vote of 61.95%. Turnout on the Island was slightly lower than expected...

UPDATED: A cyclist has been seriously injured in a road traffic collision in Sandown this evening (Thursday).  A HEMS helicopter is en-route to Fort Street car park to airlift the male cyclist to a mainland hospital after he came off...

UPDATED: Emergency services are responding to a serious road traffic collision on the outskirts of Wootton this morning (Thursday). The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have sent one appliance and a rescue tender to the scene on Whiterails...

UPDATED: The Environment Agency have issued a flood alert for the Eastern Yar overnight. In the very early hours of this morning some 25mm of rain fell in a short space of time. At Budbridge, near Merstone, the river has...

VIDEO: Islanders are being warned about thunderstorms this evening and throughout Thursday, with the potential for torrential rain and frequent lightning. The Met Office have issued a yellow weather warning from 18:00 tonight until 06:00 on Friday morning and say that...

Post-mortems have been carried out on an elderly couple found dead at their home in Shanklin on Monday, revealing that Mr John Irwin, 77, hanged himself from a banister after seemingly strangling his 83-year-old wife Jean to death. As first reported by...