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A series of meetings between Isle of Wight Council officials has concluded that Undercliff Drive will remain fully closed to all motorists due to the risk of the patched up road failing, posing a risk of a serious incident.  As previously reported...

An unconscious sailor was transferred ashore by RNLI lifeboat crews yesterday lunchtime (Sunday) after suffering a suspected heart attack whilst at sea. The National Maritime Operations Center were alerted by a yacht at 11:05 that a 67-year-old male crew member...

UPDATED: Firefighters are this afternoon (Sunday) tackling a small chimney fire in Gunville. One pumping appliance from Newport Fire Station was called to the property on Gunville Road at around 16:00. The single crew are working to extinguish the fire...

UPDATED: Firefighters from Newport are this afternoon (Sunday) attending a road traffic collision in Shide. One female has become trapped in the incident, which has happened at the junction of Shide Road and College Road in a built up residential area....

HM Coastguard are this morning (Sunday) assisting the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service in moving a casualty off Culver Down near Sandown. Members of Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team were called to the scene by paramedics earlier on to assist in...

A plan by a Muslim inmate at HMP Isle of Wight to take a prison officer hostage and escape Parkhurst jail has been foiled by vigilant staff after cell searches last week. Detailed escape plans involving the kidnapping of a prison officer were discovered...

A planning application to completely transform the former Savoy Hotel in Sandown into 19 flats has been submitted, bringing light at the end of the tunnel for residents and businesses in the seaside town who have been calling for work to be undertaken...

Firefighters across the Isle of Wight and throughout the country will walk out for a total of 96 hours - four days straight - in the continuing row over pensions. Fire Bridge Union members will take part in the strike...

UPDATED: The Isle of Wight Council, working alongside Island Roads, are set to prevent vehicular access to an unsafe section of Undercliff Drive as a matter of urgency after local residents rebuilt part of the carriageway without permission or approval...

The Island's RSPCA are warning cat owners living in East Cowes to be vigilant after the discovery that cats in the town have been shot with an air rifle, causing serious injury to much-loved pets. Police are investigating a number of...