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A car has been left upside in a field after the driver seemingly lost control on a bend in Chillerton overnight. Residents in the rural Central Wight village awoke this morning (Wednesday) to see the SUV upside down in a...

Specially trained officers from the Prison Service's 'Tornado' team were drafted in to deal with what is understood to have been a hostage situation at HMP Isle of Wight yesterday (Monday), Island Echo can exclusively reveal. The dramatic situation began...

A fire in Wootton involving a tree and a nearby bungalow saw crews from Hampshire & Isle of Wight Fire & Rescue service called to Wootton this afternoon (Tuesday). Crews from Newport and Ryde were called to a property on...

A man in his 60s has been taken to hospital following a collision between a motorcycle and car in Cowes this morning (Tuesday). Police were called at around 11:10 to reports of a road traffic collision on Mill Hill Road....

42-year-old David Dunford has been charged over a recent spate of graffiti spraying in Ryde, with a further arrest made as Police probe other graffiti tagging in Newport and Wootton. As first reported by Island Echo yesterday (Monday), Police made...

An urgent search to locate a missing person was launched in the East Wight last night (Monday), but the individual returned home of their own accord. It was at around 21:30 that Police responded to St Helens, with several officers...

Island Line trains will be running a revised timetable later today (Tuesday) due to yet more staff shortages. A number of scheduled journeys between Ryde Pier Head and Shanklin have been pulled, impacting after school and rush hour travel. South...

A 42-year-old man, a 25-year-old man and an 18-year-old man - all from Ryde - have been arrested in connection with a burglary at The Royal Victoria Arcade in Ryde, during which a number of businesses were broken into. Island...

A power cut is affecting more than 1,100 households and businesses in the Godshill, Roud, Whiteley Bank and Wroxall areas this morning. The outage hit the South Wight at around 08:40 and is currently affecting 107 postcodes in the PO36,...

Steve Porter Transport is officially in administration following the collapse of KNP Logistics Group, it has been confirmed. As previously reported by Island Echo, fears of significant job losses and a detrimental impact on Island businesses were raised last week...