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FOUND: A search is underway this evening (Wednesday) for a missing 79-year-old tourist who has gone missing from Osborne House in East Cowes. Brian Thomas was visiting the historic attraction with his wife at lunchtime today when the gentleman, who...

Firefighters are this afternoon (Wednesday) in attendance on the Barton Manor estate in East Cowes tackling a stubble fire in a field near to Osborne House. Crews from Newport and East Cowes were called to the scene adjacent to the...

UPDATED: Firefighters are tonight (Monday) in attendance at a property in Cowes where a tumble dryer has caused a fire inside a family home, it is understood. Crews from Newport and Cowes were called to the scene on Shamblers Road at...

UPDATED: Firefighters are this afternoon (Sunday) in attendance at Well Road in East Cowes following reports of a fire inside a residential property. Two appliances from Newport and East Cowes fire stations are currently at the scene opposite Waitrose, with fire...

Seven people have been rescued - two suffering from hypothermia - after the fishing vessel they were travelling on sunk in the Needles channel this afternoon (Saturday). Yarmouth RNLI All Weather Lifeboat was tasked to launch shortly after 15:00 having...

UPDATED: Two cars have collided in Newport Town Centre this afternoon (Friday) prompting a response from the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service. A Vauxhall Zafira has collided with the rear of a VW Passat, which has in turn...

UPDATED: Royal Navy Bomb Disposal experts from the mainland are this morning (Friday) en-route to Yarmouth, where a member of the public has walked into the local Police station with what is believed to be a World War II 30mm...

The identity of a body discovered at the foot of Culver Cliff on Monday has been confirmed as that of a local 58-year-old woman. As previously reported by Island Echo, Coastguard Rescue Teams from Bembridge and Ventnor recovered the body of...

UPDATED: A man reporting that there was smoke in his house to the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service prompted a two-appliance response this evening (Wednesday), only for it to be discovered that the call was a hoax. Two...

UPDATED: Emergency services including the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are this afternoon (Tuesday) attending a reported three-car collision on Fairlee Road, Newport which has resulted in the closure of the main road. Island Echo understand three vehicles...