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UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Bomb disposal experts have been tasked to the Island today (Tuesday) following the discovery of a suspicious object on a South Wight beach. An area of the beach in Ventnor has been cordoned off by Police after...

A man has been imprisoned for 12 weeks following the theft of a cash box from outside a bank in Ryde on Friday. As reported by Island Echo, Police rushed to the scene of a theft, believed to be a...

UPDATED: Firefighters are this afternoon tackling a flat fire in Sandown. Three appliances from the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are in attendance at a property above shops in the High Street, between St Johns Road and Pier...

UPDATED: Police have this afternoon (Saturday) attended a road traffic collision in Sandown that has resulted in the partial collapse of a garden wall. A red Citroen Xsara Picasso struck the boundary wall of a property on Station Avenue, at the...

UPDATED: Emergency services are this morning attending a road traffic collision on the outskirts of Newport. Police and ambulance crews are on the scene at Briddlesford Road near Wootton, where a collision - believed to involve a Citroen Xsara - occurred shortly...

UPDATED: Police have this afternoon arrested two persons after a cash box was stolen from the hands of a security guard as he left a bank in Ryde. In a dramatic scene in the middle of town, an unknown assailant...

EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS: Immigration officers have arrested one person following a raid at a popular takeaway in Cowes this afternoon (Thursday).  Around 9 Home Office officials descended on Totties Fish and Chips in Cowes High Street at around 15:30, entering the property...

UPDATED: As reported by IslandEcho earlier today, Police have this morning carried out a number of raids relating to the supply and sale of illegal drugs. Around 5 Police vans were witnessed to be heading into Ryde Town at around 07:00...

As exclusively revealed by IslandEcho yesterday evening (Tuesday), the Chief Executive of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice, Tina Harris, has resigned. Harris, who has been leading the Newport-based hospice for the past two-and-a-half years, is set to move to the mainland in...

UPDATED: Bomb disposal experts have been deployed to Grove Road, Ventnor this afternoon, their second deployment on the Island today. Excavation works at or near Ventnor Tennis Club have uncovered an object, believed to be an incendiary device, shortly before...