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A man had to be rescued from scaffolding at All Saints Church in Ryde during the early hours of this morning (Wednesday). Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to the unusual situation by Police at...

Firefighters from Sandown, Shanklin and Ventnor were mobilised to a flat fire in Sandown during the early hours of this morning (Wednesday) when an electric heater fire resulted in the property filling with smoke. At just before 01:00, Hampshire &...

Fire crews rushed to Cowes Enterprise College earlier this afternoon (Tuesday) following fears of a fire at the school. Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service was called shortly after 16:00 when an alarm was activated and a...

Police - supported by WightSAR, HM Coastguard and the National Police Air Service helicopter - have launched an urgent search for missing Newport man Matthew Hatch tonight (Monday). Officers have been deployed to the banks of the River Medina in...

Police are still working to identify a man who is feared to have walked off with a quantity of high-purity cocaine after it washed up on the Isle of Wight coast at the weekend. Millions of pounds worth of Class...

Police have confirmed that no arrests have been made following an arson attack at a block of flats in Newport last week. As first reported by Island Echo, pumping appliances from Newport and Cowes were called to the scene on...

Motorists heading into Newport are facing significant delays in all directions this morning (Monday) - all because of the closure of the Lidl slip road. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks has had to close the slip road from the dual...

The National Police Air Service Helicopter (NPAS) is once again scouring the South Coast of the Island - less than 24 hours after millions of pounds worth of suspected Class A drugs were found on the Isle of Wight coastline....

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was seriously assaulted in Shanklin in the early hours of Saturday morning (7th October). Officers attended an address in Atherley Road, where a man in his 40s was found with wounds to...

A significant quantity of what is thought to be cocaine has been found washed ashore on the Isle of Wight coast today (Saturday), prompting a frantic multi-agency search to locate any more Class A bundles. The packages washed up on...