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UPDATED: A 19-year-old teenager has this afternoon (Wednesday) been airlifted to St Mary's Hospital, Newport after falling down steps at Compton Beach near Freshwater. The Needles Coastguard Rescue Team and paramedics from the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service rushed to...

Emergency services dealt with a double emergency in the West Wight yesterday (Tuesday), resulting in one person being taken to hospital. Coastguard Rescue teams raced to Freshwater Bay shortly after 14:40 when two men, believed to be aged in their...

INVESTIGATION: After several reports of bus fires on the Island over recent months, Island Echo have probed a number of  incidents, prompting a response from the bus company Southern Vectis. An alarming increase in the amount of times the Isle...

Family and friends have paid tribute to an Freshwater man who was killed in a motorcycle collision in the New Forest last week. Michael Smith, 50, of Tennyson Road, Freshwater, lost control of his Yamaha 550 motorcycle before careering into...

Police and ambulance crews are in attendance at Flowersbrook Park, Ventnor after reports of a man attempting to take his own life. Island Echo understands a male in his 30's was seen to be attempting suicide by hanging in the...

Emergency services are this morning (Monday) working to free two people who have become trapped inside their vehicle following a road traffic collision in Cowes. Police and ambulance crews were called to the scene shortly before 08:00 this morning following...

Police and Coastguard rescue teams are this morning (Sunday) conducting a land and sea search in Ventnor. Emergency services were called at around 09:30 after a pair of shoes, a towel and an inflatable were found unattended on the beach,...

Fire crews turned out to a garden fire in East Cowes in the early hours of this morning (Sunday) after receiving a number of 999 calls from concerned residents. The orange flames lite up in the windows of a number...

A van driver has been left feeling a little embarrassed this evening after his van became stuck on Ryde Sands, with an incoming tide fast approaching. The White Ford Transit tipper van sunk into the sand just outside Ryde Harbour,...

Two persons have been hospitalised overnight after being involved in a serious road traffic collision on the outskirts of Yarmouth. The female driver of a silver Honda Civic was taken to St Mary's Hospital, Newport suffering from whiplash, concussion and...