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The identity of a body found at the foot of Culver Cliff on Saturday has been revealed as that of Geoffrey Edmunds of Ryde. The 76-year-old, who lived in West Hill Road, is believed to have climbed over a barbed-wire...

UPDATED: Two fire crews from the Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service are this afternoon attending a reported building fire in Sandown. Appliances from Ryde and Sandown have been dispatched to a mental health accommodation unit, Sandham House in...

UPDATED: A motorcyclist has been seriously injured following a two-vehicle road traffic collision in East Cowes last night (Saturday). Emergency services were called to the junction of Victoria Grove and Vectis Road at 20:50 following reports of a collision between...

UPDATED: Emergency services including Coastguard Rescue Teams are this afternoon attempting the recovery of a body at the foot of Culver Cliff near Sandown. It is understood that an unknown person climbed over the barbed wire fencing near to the...

Emergency services are this afternoon in attendance at a head-on road traffic collision on The Downs, resulting in the closure of the road. Island Echo understand three vehicles have been involved in the crash, which occurred shortly before 13:00 near...

MISSING PERSON: Police have this evening launched an appeal for information as concerns grow for the welfare of a missing Freshwater man 20-year-old Marc Lane was reported missing by his sister, an Island Echo reader, yesterday (Thursday). Mr Lane's family are...

Bomb disposal teams from the mainland are en-route to Cowes this afternoon after an unexploded shell was discovered at a local business. Police are currently in attendance at Isle of Wight Aggregates on Arctic Road in the town after the...

UPDATED: Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue crews are currently attending an RTC in Yarmouth following a collision causing the occupants to be trapped within the vehicles.  Fire crews were called to River Road in Yarmouth at 19.15 this evening (Thursday)...

HEALTH WARNING: The Met office has issued a Level 2 Heatwave warning from tomorrow (Friday) and throughout the weekend until Sunday, indicating temperatures are expected to soar above 31 degrees. The threshold temperature of 31 degrees Celsius during the day...

UPDATED: Yarmouth's RNLI lifeboat has this morning (Thursday) been tasked to the aid of a sinking vessel, 10 miles South West of The Needles. The crew were scrambled in the All Weather Lifeboat at 10:42 after a Mayday called was...