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FOUND: Police have this evening (Sunday) launched an urgent search to locate an Island woman who suffers from Alzheimer's that has gone missing from Shanklin. Maureen Hitchcock, 75, was last seen at 16:15 in the Victoria Avenue area however has...

UPDATED: Island firefighters are this afternoon (Sunday) assisting a horse in distress in Alverstone. Crews from Sandown, Shanklin and Newport were called to Borthwood Farm off of Alverstone Road at 16:00 following reports of a horse in distress and stuck...

UPDATED: Emergency services were called to the scene of a road traffic collision on The Downs between Ashey and Newport overnight after a vehicle rolled onto its roof. A modified Peugeot 106 was involved in a collision at around 02:00,...

UPDATED: A woman has jumped from the Red Jet pontoon in Cowes this afternoon (Saturday) prompting a multi-agency emergency response. Island Echo understands the female entered the water at around 17:15 beside the West Cowes Red Jet terminal after trying...

UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Royal Navy bomb disposal experts have returned to the Island for the second time this week after a grenade was discovered on a West Wight beach earlier today (Saturday). The Explosive Ordnance Disposal team were called from Portsmouth when...

UPDATED: A Newport Councillor has today (Saturday) slammed an outrageous tweet by bus operator Southern Vectis that has been labelled as 'blatantly sexist' and has called for an apology to be made. Cllr Chris Whitehouse, Conservative for Newport West, has...

Cowes RNLI lifeboat raced to help two young men aboard a yacht this afternoon (Friday) after they radioed Solent Coastguard to say they were in danger of being in the path of an approaching container ship. The 6.5 metre yacht,...

UPDATED: Firefighters are this afternoon (Friday) tackling a reported undergrowth fire at Parkhurst Forest, Newport. Two appliances from Newport and the water carrier from Freshwater were alerted to the incident at just gone 16:00. It is understood part of the...

Plans to transform the run down Royal York Hotel in Ryde into a 30-bedroom hotel and four flats have been approved by the Isle of Wight Council Planning Department. Residents of the seaside town have been calling for work to...

The former Isle of Wight Councillor, Roger Dixcey has been elected to Newport Parish Council overnight to represent the Newport West ward replacing David Whittaker, who has been jailed for six years for sex crimes against children. A by-election took...