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Serious weaknesses have been found at Ryde Academy following an Ofsted inspection in April, however the report has only been published this week due to major issues arising from the manner in which the original inspection was carried out leading to...

UPDATED: Cash stolen from Robin Hill Country Park that was placed on the back of a nicked pick-up truck is not believed to be connected to a large amount of money handed out in the middle of Newport Town Centre....

A single parent of two from Freshwater rekindled her relationship with child sex killer Mark Bridger in the weeks before he killed innocent April Jones in North Wales last October, it has emerged. Lesley Grimwood of Amos Hill, Totland Bay,...

A large-scale search and rescue operation is underway today to locate a pensioner who has gone missing from Totland, West Wight. Police are asking local residents to keep an eye out and to check places where somebody could hide as...

Olympic Gold medalist Sir Ben Ainslie has broken the Round the Island Race multi-hull record by 16 mins 14 seconds in an amazing time of 02:52:15, surrounded by spectator boats as he crossed the finish line in Cowes. Nearly 1500...

A retired couple from Ventnor are celebrating a lottery windfall after their numbers came up, scooping an incredible £115,486 on the National Lottery. Robert McDowell, 67 (known as Bob) and his wife Carrie, 63 were on a road trip in...

Students at a troubled school on the Island are this week facing the possibility of resitting a vital A-Level examination after they were taught the wrong text in similar style to a BBC Waterloo Road episode. 8 pupils at Sandown...

Detectives investigating a sexual assault on an 18-year-old girl in Newport have arrested a man in his 20s in connection with the attack in the early hours of Sunday morning.  The teenager had spent the evening at Lloyd’s Bar on...

VIDEO: The crews of Sandown and Shanklin Independent Lifeboat have had a busy Bank Holiday Weekend after carrying out three operational shouts yesterday alone (Sunday), two with the assistance of Ventnor Coastguard. The first shout came in at 13.20 when...

Fire crews have tackled a large bin fire overnight outside a popular Shanklin takeaway. Emergency services were alerted the incident shortly after 01:30 to reports of  a bin well alight outside Mr T's takeaway in Atherley Road, Shanklin. Upon arrival, crews discovered...