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KAHU LIFTED FROM THE WATER
UPDATED: The operation to lift the sunken luxury motor cruiser 'Kahu' is well underway this morning following work overnight to prepare the hull for salvage. The multimillion pound vessel sunk last Monday after firefighters tackled an inferno that ripped through...
Read moreDetailsMISSING MAN MAY BE ON THE ISLAND
FOUND: Staffordshire Police have this week issued an appeal for information to locate James 'Jim' Clarke, 61, who went missing from his home in Newcastle in the early hours of Thursday morning. Mr Clarke was last spotted in Southampton on...
Read moreDetailsCAR COLLIDES WITH TREES
UPDATED: Police and Ambulance crews are this evening attending a road traffic collision in Havenstreet. A Peugeot 106 Quicksilver hatchback car has left the carriageway between the Isle of Wight Steam Railway and Briddlesford Road, colliding with a number of...
Read moreDetailsONE TRAPPED IN FOUR VEHICLE COLLISION
UPDATED: Emergency services have this afternoon attended a four-car collision in Wootton. One Police officer has been extricated from his vehicle after firefighters cut the roof off of the new Ford Focus response car, which was at the head of...
Read moreDetailsSCHOOL GIRL APPROACHED BY UNKNOWN MAN
UPDATED: An investigation has been launched after an unknown man is said to have approached a young girl during break time at a Newport school yesterday (Thursday). The incident happened at Summerfields Primary School on Atkinson Drive in Newport during a break...
Read moreDetails20-YEAR-OLD ATTACKED WITH KNIFE
MAP: Police are today appealing for witness to come forward after a 20-year-old man was attacked with a knife in Lake in the early hours of yesterday morning (Wednesday). The incident took place between 01:30 and 02:00 on Sandown Road...
Read moreDetailsFIRE SERVICE ALERTED AFTER TWO CAR CRASH
Emergency services have this morning attended a two car collision on Bullen Road in Ryde. The incident happened just after 08:00 on a straight piece of road near to the Made on Wight building, between Westridge Cross and Pondwell Hill....
Read moreDetailsOIL RESPONSE PLAN PUT INTO ACTION
Environment Agency officers are working alongside the Cowes Harbour Commission today in an attempt to contain approximately 9,000 litres of diesel and to prevent it from spilling into the River Medina following the sinking of the luxury motor cruiser 'Kahu'....
Read moreDetailsFIRE CREWS TACKLE LARGE BOAT FIRE
UPDATED: Firefighters are this afternoon tackling a large boat fire in East Cowes. The Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service were alerted to the incident at East Cowes Marina shortly after 13:00 when reports came through of smoke billowing...
Read moreDetailsINVESTIGATION INTO HORRIFIC AND CALLOUS ATTACK
UPDATED: A Newport woman has been left with a broken arm, fractured cheek bones, a broken nose and has had her teeth knocked out after she was brutally attacked in the early hours of Sunday morning. The incident took place just...
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