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Eurovia and Aggregate Industries have today announced the formation of a new joint venture company that could see the application for the controversial Medina Wharf asphalt plant withdrawn.  Aggregate Industries already trades on the Isle of Wight through a subsidiary,...

Fire crews are this morning tackling a blaze at GKN Aerospace in East Cowes. Four pumping appliances plus the Aerial Ladder Platform from Ryde, as well as the Foam Salvage Tender from East Cowes, were called to the Ferry Road...

Investigations are underway this afternoon into a fire on board a yacht in the Solent. Fire crews from Newport were called to Trinity Landing in Cowes after receiving reports from Solent Coastguard that a fire had ignited in the engine...

UPDATED: Residents across the Hampshire region, including the Isle of Wight, are urged not to approach a potentially dangerous convicted murderer after he went missing from Tatchbury Mount Hospital on the outskirts of Southampton yesterday (Saturday).  Daniel Rosenthal, 58, has...

Emergency services raced to the scene of a road traffic collision near Chessell in the early hours of this morning (Sunday). One person had to be freed from the wreckage of their vehicle by the Isle of Wight Fire and...

A family were taken to St Mary's Hospital yesterday evening (Friday) after the car they were travelling in collided with a tree before rolling onto it's roof. Emergency services were called to the scene at Victoria Avenue, Shanklin near to...

A main road in Ryde was closed yesterday evening (Friday) after a small fire broke out on an apartment window above a popular cafe. Two pumping applianes from Ryde and an aerial ladder platform from Newport were called to the...

UPDATED: Fire crews from across the Island are currently attending a roof fire at a property in Reed Street, Ryde. Appliances from Ryde, Sandown, Bembridge and two appliances from Newport, as well as the Aerial Ladder Platform (ALP) from Ryde...

UPDATED: Emergency services are this morning attending a road traffic collision in Shanklin involving an Island Roads waste van and a young boy. Island Echo understand that the Ford Transit collided with a 10-year-old child on a bend at Hope...

Emergency services attended a small road traffic collision in Shanklin this lunchtime (Thursday) after a woman was knocked to the ground. Police were called to the scene at the junction of the High Street and Pomona Road shortly before 12:45...