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UPDATED: Emergency services are this evening attending a two car road traffic collision in Lake. Fire, police and ambulance crews are all in attendance at the junction of the A3055 Sandown Road, A3056 Newport Road and Heath Road, near to...

Yet another Island school has been placed into special measures by the education regulator, Ofsted. It has been announced today (Thursday) that Niton Primary School in the South Wight has been judged as inadequate in a number of sectors, including...

Detectives on the Isle of Wight are appealing for witnesses to come forward following an assault on a man near to the William Coppin pub in Newport. In the early hours of Sunday, at around 00:50, a 48-year-old man was...

VIDEO: Sandown & Shanklin Independent Lifeboat came to the aid of three holiday makers cut off by the tide yesterday (Sunday).  The volunteer lifeboat was out on patrol when the station's Lifeboat Operations Manager (LOM) notified the crew that he had...

Rap legend Snoop Dogg wowed the crowds last night (Saturday) as he performed some of his best hits including 1994's  'Gin & Juice' in front of an audience of up to 50,000 people. The main arena was electric as some...

As fancy dress swept across the Bestival arenas with a theme of all things nautical, Island Echos' photographer was on hand to capture the wonderful costumes from battleships to sailors and everything in between. Island Echo are reporting live from Downend...

The annual fancy dress day tradition returned to Bestival today (Saturday) with all things nautical on the agenda. From sailors to battleships, lobsters' to Spongebob Squarepants and everything in between, revellers have well and truly got into the spirit of...

UPDATED: Emergency services have this afternoon (Saturday) attended a road traffic collision at Tollgate Road, Seaview. One vehicle has landed upside down in the crash, which occurred at around 14:30. Island Echo understand the VW Polo hit a kerb and...

It was a dark, dull start to Friday as day two of Bestival 2013 got underway, but that was short lived as the sun once again shone down on Robin Hill Adventure Park for what turned out to be another...

Fatboy Slim celebrated Bestival's 10th birthday in style last night (Friday), singing Happy Birthday with a crowd of up 50,000 people as he took to the Main Stage for a night to remember. The crowd were buzzing as Fatboy Slim,...