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Emergency services are this evening attending an incident in Newport where a vehicle has ploughed into the front of a family home. Fire crews from Newport are attending the incident alongside Police and paramedics at a property in Sylvan Drive...

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: A mother and her young daughter had a lucky escape yesterday (Sunday) after their family car caught fire just minutes after leaving their home in Upper Ventnor. Mum-of-two Ali Starling has been left shaken by the incident, which...

The Isle of Wight's only HMV store is set to close later this month, as revealed by Island Echo on Thursday. Rumours of the closure have been circulating for the past week much to the upset of regular customers, however the...

UPDATED: Emergency services are this afternoon (Sunday) recovering a body found floating in the English Channel south of St Catherine's Point. HM Coastguard and Police were alerted to the discovery earlier today prompting Rescue 104 helicopter to be deployed to...

Firefighters from Ryde were called to a block of flats in the town earlier this morning (Friday) after reports of burning were received. Two appliances turned out to Bridgewood flats on St John's Wood Road at the junction of Park...

UPDATED: A 52-year-old man, understood to be Eco Island's CEO David Green, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud. A spokesperson for Hampshire Constabulary yesterday (Thursday) confirmed that a man was helping Police with their enquiries, however did not officially...

Due to a lack of serviceable vessels, Red Funnel’s hi-speed Red Jet service is reduced to a one-boat shuttle service for approximately the next two weeks, it has been announced. The news comes as the cross-Solent operator launch an investigation...

UPDATED: Red Funnel have today (Thursday) launched an investigation into the circumstances which led their flagship hi-speed craft, Red Jet 5, to collide with a buoy during a regular cross-Solent sailing. During the 05:45 sailing between Southampton and Cowes, Red...

UPDATED: An anonymous local businessman who launched a 28 day reward for information which leads to the discovery of missing Damien Nettle’s body has this week extended the deadline. Some potentially important information in the search for Damien was provided...

UPDATED: Eco-Island, a community interest company with the broad goal of improving the resilience of, and promoting and achieving sustainability on the Isle of Wight, has been placed into voluntary liquidation, it has been revealed. The Ecoisland CIC was set...