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A multi-agency operation - which included the tasking of Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 175 - took place on the beach at Luccombe last night (Saturday) after 2 people became cut off by the tide. Resources from HM Coastguard, Hampshire & Isle...

A power cut has left as many as 300 customers in the Godshill and Sandford areas without supply this evening (Saturday). The outage was first logged at around 19:30 with Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) hoping to restore power...

The sole occupant of a Nissan Micra has been taken to St Mary’s Hospital following a road traffic collision on the main road between St Helens and Bembridge this afternoon (Saturday). Emergency services were first called to the St Helens...

Police are appealing for help locating missing man Ian Brownlow who was last seen in Ventnor this morning (Saturday). The 57-year-old was last seen on Albert Road, Ventnor, Isle of Wight at 03:00 today (Saturday). Officers have been carrying out...

Police have been carrying out a search of a remote stretch of coastline between East Cowes and Wootton today (Friday) in a bid to uncover human remains, following the discovery of a bone earlier this year. Officers descended on the...

A crash thought to involve 3 vehicles has seen emergency services respond to central Newport this evening (Thursday). It was just gone 20:00 that the road traffic collision occurred on the link road between Fairlee Road and Medina Way -...

A 50-year-old man Seaview was arrested on suspicion of drug driving after he was stopped by Police in Newchurch on Tuesday evening. Officers from Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary were called to Watery Lane in the village at around...

A man in his 60s is being treated in hospital after being involved in a hit and run collision in Gurnard this morning (Tuesday). Police were called at 07:57 to reports of a pedestrian collision on Cockleton Lane. Island Echo...

The Hampshire & Isle of Wight Air Ambulance has been scrambled to a horse-related incident in the West Wight which has left a woman with a suspected broken leg. It was shortly before 13:15 that the air ambulance's dispatch desk...

A fire alarm sounding at a building key to the Island's digital infrastructure has prompted a response to Ryde by Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service this afternoon (Tuesday). 3 appliances from Newport, Sandown and Shanklin have...