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UPDATED: Emergency services are this morning (Monday) attending a road traffic collision on Middle Road on the outskirts of Newport. Three ambulance crews and Police are currently working at the scene near to Betty Haunt Lane. It is understood at...

Police have this afternoon (Sunday) formally named the victim involved in Friday night's incident in Sandown as local man Chris Parsons, 44. Mr Parsons, known as 'Boo' to many, was found lying on the pavement in Cross Street at the...

UPDATE: A car and motorcycle have collided on the outskirts of Newport this evening (Saturday) resulting in the closure of a main road. Gunville Road has been closed with the junction of Forest Road after a Nissan Micra and a...

UPDATED: A 50-year-old man from Sandown has been arrested on suspicion of murder following the discovery of a body in a residential area of Sandown last night (Friday). As first reported by Island Echo, Police cordoned off Cross Street and...

UPDATED WITH VIDEO: A person has died following an incident in Sandown tonight (Friday) which has resulted in a residential area being cordoned off. Police and ambulance crews, including a Rapid Response Paramedic, were called to the junction of Cross...

UPDATED: Coastguard Rescue Teams and Police are this evening (Friday) in attendance at Culver Cliff near Sandown. Initial reports indicate 5 Police units are in attendance alongside several Coastguard teams. UPDATE @ 20:20 - Coastguard Rescue Teams from Bembridge and...

UPDATED: Firefighters are this evening (Friday) working to help free an animal that has become stuck on a farm. Three appliances and the Incident Support Unit from Newport Fire Station are currently in attendance on Alverstone Road near Apse Heath....

An expensive BMW 4x4 has collided with a fence in East Cowes this afternoon (Friday). Police and ambulance crews were called to the scene on Victoria Grove in the town at around 15:40 following reports of a vehicle having collided...

An 18-year-old Sandown man has escaped going to prison today (Friday) after being sentenced at Newport Crown Court in relation to a collision that led to the deaths of two Islanders back in January, just two weeks after he passed his...

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools, Lord Nash, is to visit the Isle of Wight in under two weeks time, it has been confirmed. In a letter from Education Secretary Michael Gove to Cllr Chris Whitehouse (Newport West) yesterday,...