Breaking News

UPDATED: Firefighters have this evening (Monday) tackled a fire at a sewage treatment works in Sandown. Three appliances from Newport, Sandown and Shanklin fire stations were called to the Southern Water treatment plant on East Yar Road just before 19:00 following...

UPDATED: Bembridge Coastguard Rescue Team were tasked to assistance a small angling vessel in the early hours of this morning (Sunday) after the skipper and two friends became disorientated in the dark. The vessel and its crew had left Bembridge Harbour...

UPDATED: A female driver has escaped serious injury overnight after the car she was driving rolled onto its roof in Cowes, damaging two parked vehicles. Two appliances from the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service were called to Park...

UPDATED: Emergency services including the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are this morning (Saturday) attending a reported three car road traffic collision outside St Mary's Hospital, Newport. Police, ambulance and fire crews were called to the scene on Parkhurst...

Police are this week exploring whether a man who approached two girls in Portsmouth on Tuesday is the same man wanted for the sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in Yarmouth earlier this month. A man matching the description of...

FOUND: Police are appealing for information to help locate missing 16-year-old Ryan Bussy who has gone missing from his home address in Phoenix Rise, Brighton, but could be on the Island. Ryan was last seen leaving his grandparents house at around...

An old aged pensioner has been charged by Police after thousands of pounds worth of damage was made to cars in the Carisbrooke area with tyres being slashed on around 40 cars over an extended period of time. Terence Smith, 67,...

UPDATED: Acid attacker Sau Lin-Hin has been sentenced to 9 years in prison following a horrific attack on a 22-year-old waitress in Sandown back in June of this year. As previously reported by Island Echo, Ms Lin-Hin, 48 of Mulberry Way...

UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Emergency services are this afternoon (Tuesday) attending an incident on Avenue Road in Sandown, where a lorry has collided with the railway bridge. sland Line train services have been suspended over fears of the safety of the...

An Island man who died after his vehicle plunged over 100ft off a cliff edge in Niton on Thursday has been named in court today (Tuesday).  Mark Weekes, 42, of Uplands Road, Northwood was pronounced dead at the scene of Thursday's incident...