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Firefighters have this afternoon tackled a car fire in Bembridge, which has totally destroyed one vehicle. A retained crew from Sandown Fire Station attended the scene near to the Bembridge Sailing Club on Embankment Road shortly before 16:15. A red...

It has been a busy 24 hours for Yarmouth's RNLI lifeboat following two shouts in the Solent, at the start of what is set to be a busy Summer.  The first shout came in yesterday evening (Friday) at 19:32 when...

Two pumping appliances from the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have this lunchtime attended to an outbuilding fire at a property in Wootton. Two crews from Newport Fire Station were dispatched to the scene on Lushington Hill at...

Emergency services are this evening responding to a collision on the outskirts of Arreton involving a milk tanker and a car. One person is trapped inside her vehicle, believed to be a 4x4, after colliding with the empty milk tanker...

EXCLUSIVE: Workers at one of the Island's largest employers, GKN Aerospace, are facing the possibility of losing their jobs should they not sign a new contract being imposed by the company, Island Echo can exclusively reveal.  Following numerous tip-offs from disgruntled members of...

UPDATED: An elderly man has been rushed to hospital this lunchtime (Thursday) following a serious collision with a vehicle in Binstead. It is understood the unknown man collapsed on the pavement beside Binstead Hill, before falling into the road and...

Two separate incidents in the East Wight area have kept fire crews from the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service busy overnight. The first shout came in shortly after 02:30 this morning (Thursday) to reports of a garden fire...

HEALTH WARNING: The Met office has issued a Level 3 Heatwave warning today (Wednesday) indicating temperatures have soared above 31 degrees in the region and the high temperature is expected to continue.  Triggered when the Met Office confirms threshold temperatures for one of...

Three pumping appliances from the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service have attended a fire at a property in Ryde this evening (Tuesday). Two retained crews from Ryde and a crew from Newport were dispatched to the scene in...

An inquest has today (Tuesday) heard how a sailor from Kingston-upon-Thames died of hypothermia after falling over board from a boat he had just purchased before his body was discovered off of the coast of the Isle of Wight some four days...