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UPDATED: Speedway is to return to the Isle of Wight next year as the Wightlink Warriors are accepted into the National League for 2016. At the annual general meeting of the league today (Wednesday), it was announced that Barry Bishop's...

A coroner has today (Wednesday) given an open conclusion at the inquest into the death of Michael Davies, who is said to have become stuck in mud on marshland after going missing from a hotel in Sandown back in May. The skeletal remains of...

Police have confirmed the identity of a body that was found in East Cowes on Sunday as that of 63-year-old Nigel Robert Greenyer from Godalming in Surrey. As first reported by Island Echo, Police and Coastguard teams were called to Seymour...

Members of the Isle of Wight Council's Planning Committee have tonight (Tuesday) approved plans for 128 homes and either a 63-bed hotel or 15 holiday units on the site of Harcourt Sands in Ryde. As previously reported by Island Echo, a...

Ryde is to receive a brand new, multi-million pound school with a capacity of some 1,500 students on the site of the existing Ryde Academy, it has been announced today (Tuesday). As part of the first phase of the Priority School...

UPDATED: Wightlink's Russell Kew has stepped down from his position as CEO and has now left the cross-Solent operator, it has been revealed today (Tuesday). Kew, who has been the head of the company since 2009, has left by mutual...

UPDATE: A motorcyclist has been conveyed to St Mary's Hospital this afternoon (Monday) following a road traffic collision on the main Newport to Cowes road. Emergency services were called to the scene on Newport Road near the military museum at just before...

UPDATED: Police have been involved in the search for a wanted man in Rookley this afternoon (Sunday) following an assault on a female member of staff at the village's Co-Operative store. Officers were last night called to the Co-Operative after a...

UPDATED: A body has been found near to the Floating Bridge in East Cowes this morning (Sunday).  Police and HM Coastguard were called to the scene at around 09:00 after staff on the Cowes Floating Bridge spotted the body in...

Police are attending a road traffic collision in Newport tonight (Saturday) after a vehicle has collided with a traffic bollard and the corner of a house. The incident has occurred on Trafalgar Road at the junction with New Street, sparking...